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Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…
Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and the latter times of his corporal pains and weakness.
London: printed by Tho. Snowden for B. Simmons, 1683
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4. And so doth the frustration of all other means, till the Spirit of God do it by setting home the Gospel upon the Heart. Children will grow up in Wickedness, against all the Counsel, Love, Correction of their Parents: ⟨p. 278⟩no Words, no Reason will prevail with them, more than with drunken men or beasts.
4. And so doth the frustration of all other means, till the Spirit of God do it by setting home the Gospel upon the Heart. Children will grow up in VVickedness, against all the Counsel, Love, Correction of their Parents: ⟨p. 278⟩no VVords, no Reason will prevail with them, more than with drunken men or beasts.
5. We find it a very hard thing to cure a Man of some one rooted sin: much more of all.
5. VVe find it a very hard thing to cure a Man of some one rooted sin: much more of all.
6. The common misery of the World proclaimeth Man's Vice, and the difficulty of the cure: How else comes the World to live in self-seeking, falsehood, fraud, malice, and in bloody Wars, wors• than Wolves and Serpents against each other.
6. The common misery of the VVorld proclaimeth Man's Vice, and the difficulty of the cure: How else comes the VVorld to live in self-seeking, falshood, fraud, malice, and in bloody VVars, wors• than VVolves and Serpents against each other.