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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
THE Second Part. OF GODS GOVERNMENT, AND MORAL WORKS. › Section 17: Of Love as the end of Faith.
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252. Therefore it is not by Faith only that we know what Heaven is, and are drawn to seek it and hope for it: but also by this earnest and foretaste of love; which worketh by a spiritual gust and sweet inward experience. The Intellect first hath Faith, and the Will hath Love; And a promise and earnest is more a promise alone.
252. Therefore it is not by Faith only that we know what Heaven is, and are drawn to seek it and hope for it: but also by this earnest and foretast of love; which worketh by a spiritual gust and sweet inward experience. The Intellect first hath Faith, and the Will hath Love; And a promise and earnest is more a promise alone.
253. When Faith hath wrought this holy Love in the Soul, it doth as much if not more to keep us from Apostasy than Faith it self. Therefore many unlearned Christians, by the power of holy Love, stand fast, when subtle disputing Doctors may cleave to the world, and fall away.
253. When Faith hath wrought this holy Love in the Soul, it doth as much if not more to keep us from Apostacy than Faith it self. Therefore many unlearned Christians, by the power of holy Love, stand fast, when subtile disputing Doctors may cleave to the world, and fall away.
254. Though it be an ill expression of those School-men that say, Love is the form of every Grace, that which I suppose they mean is true: that love being the final Grace, the rest as they are means to it, or the effects and expressions of it, are what they are partly in that Relation: The means is a means only by its Aptitude to the end; And is never loved (as such) for it self, but for the end: And what the effect hath, it hath from its efficient Cause. And it is true, that no Faith, no Fear, no Obedience, no Praise, no Suffering is further accepted of God, and a part of true Holiness, nor will prove our Salvation, than it participateth of predominant love to God. But this predominant Love is always an evidence of Life.