Old Wisdom

What is Prayer (Part 1 of 4)

John Bunyan ~ modernized, with Scripture quotes from the HCSB. I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with my understanding. – 1 Corinthians 14:15 PRAYER is an ORDINANCE [law] of God, to be used both in public and private.  It is such an ordinance that it brings those with the spirit of supplication into great familiarity…

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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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Old Wisdom

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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