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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Related booksOther editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesact of uniformity afterwards aged appears Baxter blessed born buried called Camb Cambridge chapel chaplain Christ Christian church church of England conformed congregation congregational church conscience considerable conversation court Coventry death died discourse Dissenters divine ejected eminent endeavoured esteemed excellent faith fame farewel sermon father fays fome friends funeral sermon gave gospel grace hearers Henry holy honour imprisoned John justice of peace Kidderminster King King's labours learning lecture liberty lived London Lord Lord's Supper Lord's-day minister ministry moderation neighbouring never nister Nonconformists Nonconformity ordained Oxford parish parliament pastor peace peaceable person piety pious pray prayer preacher Presbyterian prison Quakers religion removed Restoration returned Samuel scholar Scotland sent Serm silenced souls spirit suffered temper thence things Thomas thought thro tion told took town wife William worthy York castle Popular passagesPage 542 - After a slumber, he waked, and said, ' I shall rest from my labour.' A minister then present, said, ' And your works will follow you.' To whom he replied,' No works; I will leave out works, if God will grant me the other. Page 262 - ... assembly melted into tears. This address was accompanied with such animated, yet natural action, that it surpassed any thing I ever saw or heard in any other preacher. Page 535 - Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court ? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave ; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy. Page 541 - I can assure you, that your whole life, be it ever so long, is little enough to prepare for death. Have a care of this vain, deceitful world, and the lusts of the flesh ; be sure you choose God for your portion, heaven for your home, God's glory for your end, his word for your rule, and then you need never fear but we shall meet with comfort. Page 541 - His pacific spirit was a clear character of his being a child of God. How ardently he endeavoured to cement the breaches among us, which others widen and keep open, is publicly known. He said to a friend, ' I can as willingly be a martyr for love, as for any article of the creed. Page 504 - Upon which he told him he was one of the ministers who had been lately ejected from the Church; and that having nothing of his own left, he was content for a livelihood to submit to the honest and peaceful employment of tending sheep. Page 264 - Father in heaven is merciful ; love your enemies, and do good to them that hate you ; that ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven ; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just, and on the unjust. Page 604 - I doubt not sanctified his afflictions for the bettering of his heart ; he had a good report of all men and of the truth itself. Page 27 - O! consider this, ye that forget God, lest He tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver you. Page 541 - He continued to preach so long, notwithstanding his wasted, languishing body, that the last time he almost died in the pulpit. It would doubtless have been his joy to have been transfigured in the mount. Bibliographic information
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