| 1876 - 952 Seiten
...principle and right. This fact is the clue to his history and the key-note of his works. He tells us that " while we wrangle here in the dark, we are dying, and passing to the world that will decide all our controversies, and the safest passage thither is by peaceable holiness." And he gives " warning... | |
| Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1879 - 408 Seiten
...BAGSHAWE, died ' in prison,' and on the tidings reaching Baxter he closed their contention thus : — " While we wrangle here in the dark, we are dying, and passing to the world that will decide all our controversies, and the safest passage thither is by peaceable holiness." Is there not a fine, tender,... | |
| J L. Nye - 1882 - 138 Seiten
...a saying of the pious Richard Baxter, recorded by himself in the " History of his own Times," — " While we wrangle here in the dark we are dying, and passing to that world which will decide all our controversies : and the safest passage thither is by peaceable... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1885 - 490 Seiten
...tho' not in prison ; which made it grievous to me to think that I must seem to write against the dead. While we wrangle here in the dark, we are dying, and...•will decide all controversies ; and the safest fassage thither is by peaceable holiness.' le was buried in Biinhill Fields, and Dr. John Owen wrote... | |
| Percy Dearmer - 1898 - 396 Seiten
...with very wrath, we may yet remember that there were always men who could say with Richard Baxter, 'While we wrangle here in the dark, we are dying,...safest passage thither is by peaceable holiness.' PERCY DEARMER. I JOHN WICLIF [Wiclif (c. 1320-1384) did not become a pamphleteer till near the close... | |
| Friends' Historical Society - 1924 - 230 Seiten
...when it was too late, might have arisen here on both sides, if they had known each other better. ' While we wrangle here in the dark, we are dying and passing to the World that will decide all our Controversies ; and the Safest Passage thither is by peacable Holiness' (Reliquice Baxteriants,... | |
| 1903 - 652 Seiten
...zeal was tempered with love. " While we wrangle here in the dark," with a tender pathos he exclaims, " we are dying and passing to the world that will decide all our controversies; and the safest passage thither is by peaceable holiness." Baxter was not exempt... | |
| 1881 - 798 Seiten
...not cold." " I ain't heating the weather, I'm warming my hands," the little fellow demurely replied. While we wrangle here in the dark, we are dying and passing to the world that will decide all our controversies ; and the safest passage thither is by peaceable holiness. — Baxter. There is a... | |
| Benjamin Jowett - 1907 - 268 Seiten
...and unmeaning controversy ? ' While we wrangle here in the dark,' 1 am once more quoting Baxter — ' while we wrangle here in the dark, we are dying and passing to the world which will decide all our controversies, and the safest passage is by peaceable holiness. It is a great... | |
| 1880 - 846 Seiten
...Wordsworth. A prudent man is like a pin — his head prevents him from going too far. Whilst we are wrangling here in the dark, we are dying, and passing to the world that will decide our controversies ; and the safest passage thither is by peaceable holiness. A few years since, in... | |
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