A26919:277
The divine life in three treatises
The divine life in three treatises ... by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Francis Tyton, 1664
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Quest. 3. If you think it a most heinous sin to vilify the Creator and his work, and the Redeemer and his work, why should not you think so of the vilifying of the sanctifier and his work, when God hath so magnified it, and will be glorified in it? and when it is the applying perfecting work, that maketh the purchased benefits of Redemption to be ours, and formeth our Fathers Image on us.
Quest. 3. If you think it a most hainous sin to vilifie the Creator and his work, and the Redeemer and his work, why should not you think so of the vilifying of the sanctifier and his work, when God hath so magnified it, and will be glorified in it? and when it is the applying perfecting work, that maketh the purchased benefits of Redemption to be ours, and formeth our Fathers Image on us.
Quest. 4. Do we not Doctrinally commit too much of that sin (if we undervalue the Spirits sanctifying work, as a common thing) which the ungodly world do manifest in practice, when they speak and live in a contempt or low esteem of grace? And which is more injurious to God? for a profane person to jest at the Spirits work, or for a Christian or Minister deliberately to extenuate it? especially when the preaching of grace is a Ministers chief work, sure we should much fear partaking in so great a sin.
Quest. 4. Do we not Doctrinally commit too much of that sin (if we undervalue the Spirits sanctifying work, as a common thing) which the ungodly world do manifest in practice, when they speak and live in a contempt or low esteem of grace? And which is more injurious to God? for a prophane person to jest at the Spirits work, or for a Christian or Minister deliberately to extennate it? especially when the preaching of grace is a Ministers chief work, sure we should much fear partaking in so great a sin.