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Volume Seventeen includes Baxter’s work on hypocrisy. He attempts to explain the widespread commonality of hypocrisy, contrasted with the marks of grace. He also addresses specific issues pertinent to his own church and the relevant controversies in his own ministry. Volume Seventeen concludes with a collection of sermons on diverse topics, including Proverbs, Ezekiel, the Gospels, and several...

and ungoverned thoughts must needs be both sinful and very troublesome: grief carrieth them away as in a torrent. You may almost as easily keep the leaves of trees in quietness and order in a blustering wind as the thoughts of one in troubling passions. If reason would stop them from perplexing subjects, or turn them to better and sweeter things, it cannot do it; it hath no power against the stream of troubling passions. 3. Overmuch sorrow would swallow up faith itself, and greatly hindereth its
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