Biographical collections: or, Lives and characters from the works of ... mr. Baxter and dr. Bates (and mr. Howe).1766 |
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Sivu x - And with strong faith foment the holy fire ! Stretch out my soul in hope, and grasp the prize, Which in eternity's deep bosom lies ! At the great day of...
Sivu 116 - God's name, the coming of his kingdom, and the doing of his will, even as it is done in heaven...
Sivu 69 - Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever : for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
Sivu 101 - Spirit which is love, which he sheds abroad in the hearts of thine elect, that the love of the Father, the grace of the Son, and the communion of the Spirit.
Sivu viii - No works ; I will leave out works, if God will grant me the other.
Sivu vi - When a friend was comforting him with the remembrance of the good many had received by his preaching and writings, he said, ' I was but a pen in God's hands, and what praise is due to a pen ?' " His resigned submission to the will of God in his sharp sickness was eminent.
Sivu 212 - His style was not exquisitely studied, not consisting of harmonious periods, yet far distant from vulgar meanness. His expression was natural and free, clear and eloquent, quick and powerful, without any spice of folly, and always suitable to the simplicity and majesty of divine truths. His sermons afforded substantial food with delight, so that a fastidious mind could not disrelish them. He abhorred a vain ostentation of wit in handling sacred things, so venerable and grave, and of such eternal...
Sivu 143 - Jefus the author and finifher of our faith; who for the joy that was fet before him, endured the crofs, defpifing the fhame ; and is fet down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Sivu 214 - ... for the exercise of the body, and not for the profit of souls: But this man of GOD was inflamed with an holy zeal; and from thence such ardent expressions broke forth, as were capable of .procuring attention and consent in his hearers. He spake, as one that had a living faith within within him of divine truths. From this union of zeal with his knowledge, he was excellently qualified to convince and convert souls.
Sivu 218 - Wo is me, for I am undone, becaufe I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midft of a people of unclean lips : for mine eyes have feen the King, the Lord of hods, т.