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Page 56 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 397 - A Vindication of the ministers of the Gospel in and about London from the unjust Aspersions cast upon their former Actings for the Parliament, as if they had promoted the Bringing of the King to Capital Punishment, London, 1648.
Page 134 - 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 56 - Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not ; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Page 356 - ... the lord deputy and council, but the doctor, who assured them he had a commission, but knew not how it was gone. Then the lord deputy made answer — Let us have another commission, and we will shuffle the cards in the meanwhile.
Page 49 - My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Page 242 - From short (as usual) and disturb'd repose I wake : how happy they who wake no more ! Yet that were vain, if dreams infest the grave.
Page 120 - Baxter told the lord chief justice, who had so loaded him with reproaches, and still continued them, that a predecessor of his, had had other thoughts of him ; upon which he replied, " that there was not an honest man in England but what took him for a great knave.
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| Title | Evangelical Biography: Being a Complete and Fruitful Account of the Lives ... & Happy Deaths of Eminent Christians : who Have Shone with Distinguished Lustre ... Volume 1 of Evangelical Biography: Being a Complete and Fruitful Account of the Lives ... & Happy Deaths of Eminent Christians : who Have Shone with Distinguished Lustre, Erasmus Middleton |
| Author | Erasmus Middleton |
| Publisher | J. Stratford, 1807 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jun 12, 2007 |
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