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Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace…
Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace with motives opening the lamentable effects of their weaknesses and distempers / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1669
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THE CHARACTER OF 1 A Sound Confirmed Christian, 2 And of the Weak C… › The Characters.
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3. But the seeming Christian cannot possibly in that estate, have either certainty, or good probability that he is a child of God, because it is not true: His seeming certainty is merely self-deceit, and his greatest confidence is but presumption, because the spirit of Christ is not within him, and therefore he is certainly none of his, Rom. 8.9.
3. But the seeming Christian cannot possibly in that estate, have either certainty, or good probability that he is a child of God, because it is not true: His seeming certainty is meerly self-deceit, and his greatest confidence is but presumption, because the spirit of Christ is not within him, and therefore he is certainly none of his, Rom. 8.9.
XXV. 1. The Assurance of a confirmed Christian doth increase his alacrity and diligence in duty, and is always seen in his more obedient, holy, fruitful life: The sense of the love and mercy of God, is as the rain upon the tender grass. He is never so fruitful, so thankful, so heavenly, as when he hath the greatest certainty that he shall be saved: The Love of God is then shed abroad upon his heart by the Holy Ghost, which maketh him abound in love to God, Rom. 5.1, 2, 3, 4. He is the more steadfast, unmoveable and always, abounding in the work of the Lord, when he is most certain that his labour shall not be in vain in the Lord, 1 Cor. 15.58.
XXV. 1. The Assurance of a confirmed Christian doth increase his alacrity and diligence in duty, and is alwayes seen in his more obedient, holy, fruitful life: The sense of the love and mercy of God, is as the rain upon the tender grass. He is never so fruitful, so thankful, so heavenly, as when he hath the greatest certainty that he shall be saved: The Love of God is then shed abroad upon his heart by the Holy Ghost, which maketh him abound in love to God,