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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 3 › Question 162: Quest. 162. May we not look for Miracles hereafter?
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. But he hath not promised us that he will, and therefore we cannot believe such a promise, not expect them as a certain thing. Nor may any pray for the gift of miracles.
3. But if there be any probability of them, it will be to those that are converting Infidel Nations, when they may be partly of such use as they were at first.
4. Yet it is certain, that sometimes God still worketh Miracles: But arbitrarily and rarely, which may not put any individual person in expectation of them.
Object. Is not the promise the same to us as to the Apostles and primitive Christians, if we could but believe as they did?
Answ. 1. The promise to be believed goeth before the faith that believeth it, and not that faith before the promise. 2. The promise of the Holy Ghost was for perpetuity, to sanctify all believers: