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The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32…
The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32 directions : written for the use of a troubled friend / and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Underhil, 1653
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Or if our expectations of this Happiness on earth be too high, yet give us so much as may enlighten our eyes, and heal those corruptions which estrange us from thee, and may propagate thy Truth, increase thy Church, and honour thy Holiness, and may quicken our desires, and strengthen us in our way, and be a fore-taste to us of the Everlasting Rest.
Or if our expectations of this Happiness on earth be too high, yet give us so much as may enlighten our eyes, and heal those corruptions which estrange us from thee, and may propagate thy Truth, increase thy Church, and honour thy Holiness, and may quicken our desires, and strengthen us in our way, and be a fore-tast to us of the Everlasting Rest.
Luk. 2.14. Glory to God in the Highest, on earth Peace▪ Good will towards men.
Eccles. 12.12, 13, 14. Of making many Books there is no end: and much study is a weariness to the flesh. Let us hear the Conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his Commandments: for this is the whole [Duty] of man, &c.
Ecles. 12.12, 13, 14. Of making many Books there is no end: and much study is a weariness to the flesh. Let us hear the Conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his Commandments: for this is the whole [Duty] of man, &c.