A26906:492
The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…
The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being dividers or troublers of the church with some directions to the pastors how to deal with such Christians / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Symmons, 1670
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.
Obj. But hath not God bid us believe that we shall receive what ever we ask, and promised to believers that they shall receive it?
Answ. He hath first made a Law to command you prayer, and then made a promise to grant, what you pray for, according to his will, that is, according to his command and promise, and hath made your believing of this promise, one of the conditions of his fulfilling it to you. So that if you believe not his power and promise you shall not have right immediately to the thing promised. But if you pray and believe and withal use those other means with diligence and patience which God hath appointed you, you shall know in that measure as is suitable to your state (For God hath ⟨p. 161⟩not promised the same measure of knowledge to all true believers.) So that this is all that the promise giveth you, and not that you shall know all that you pray to know, and that immediately.
Answ. He hath first made a Law to command you prayer, and then made a promise to grant, what you pray for, according to his will, that is, according to his command and promise, and hath made your believing of this promise, one of the conditions of his fulfilling it to you. So that if you believe not his power and promise you shall not have right immediately to the thing promised. But if you pray and believe and withall use those other means with diligence and patience which God hath appointed you, you shall know in that measure as is suitable to your state (For God hath ⟨p. 161⟩not promised the same measure of knowledg to all true believers.) So that this is all that the promise giveth you, and not that you shall know all that you pray to know, and that immediately.