Old Wisdom

Propostions on Faith

Richard Baxter, A Christian Directory, Book 1, ch. 3 A life of godliness is our living unto God as God, as being absolutely addicted to him. A life of faith is a living upon the unseen, everlasting happiness as purchased for us by Christ, with all the necessaries thereto, and freely given us by God. The contrary life of sense…

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Practical Helps Against Anger

Richard Baxter Direct I. The principal help against sinful anger is, in the right habituating of the soul, that you live as under the government of God, with the sense of his authority still upon your hearts, and in the sense of that mercy that hath forgiven you, and forbeareth you, and under the power of his healing and assisting…

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Old Wisdom

Richard Baxter on Anger

Anger is good when it is thus used to its appointed end, in a right manner and measure: but it is sinful, When it riseth up against God or any good, as if it were evil to us: as wicked men are angry at those that would convert and save them, and that tell them of their sins, and that…

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