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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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2. Maintain still your ancient Love and Unity and Peace among yourselves, and improve your company and converse to the advantage of your souls. Be daily interlocutory preachers to one another: Speak as the Oracles of God; and Preach by a holy, patient, harmless, charitable and heavenly life. This kind of Preaching none can silence but your own corruptions.
2. Maintain still your antient Love and Unity and Peace among yourselves, and improve your company and converse to the advantage of your souls. Be daily interlocutory preachers to one another: Speak as the Oracles of God; and Preach by a holy, patient, harmless, charitable and heavenly life. This kind of Preaching none can silence but your own corruptions.
3. Improve the profitable books which are among you. 1. Read them frequently, and reverently, and seriously to your families; when you have called them together, and prayed for Gods blessing. 2. Carry them abroad with ⟨image 5⟩you, and when you fall into company where you cannot better spend your time, read to them some seasonable passages of such writings. 3. Give or Lend them to those that need, and want either Purses or Hearts to provide them; and get them to promise you to read them, and enquire after the success. By such improvement Books may become such Seconds or Substitutes to public preaching, as that they may not be the least support of Religion and means to mens edification and salvation.
3. Improve the profitable books which are among you. 1. Read them frequently, and reverently, and seriously to your families; when you have called them together, and prayed for Gods blessing. 2. Carry them abroad with ⟨image 5⟩you, and when you fall into company where you cannot better spend your time, read to them some seasonable passages of such writings. 3. Give or Lend them to those that need, and want either Purses or Hearts to provide them; and get them to promise you to read them, and enquire after the success. By such improvement Books may become such Seconds or Substiutes to publike preaching, as that they may not be the least support of Religion and means to mens edification and salvation.