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The divine life in three treatises
The divine life in three treatises ... by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Francis Tyton, 1664
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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. 15. Do you not know that there is an enmity in every unrenewed heart against sanctification till God remove it? Are we not greater enemies to our selves, and greater resisters of the Holy Ghost, and of our own conversion and sanctification and salvation, then all the world besides is? woe to him that feeleth not this by himself. And is it likely that we that are enemies to holiness should do more to our own Sanctification, then the Holy Ghost? Woe to us if he conquer not our enmity.
Quest. 16. Is it probable that so great a work as the destroying ⟨p. 108⟩of our dearest sins, the setting our hearts and all our hopes on an Invisible glory, and delighting in the Lord, and forsaking all for him, &c. should come rather from the choice of a will that loveth those sins, and hateth that holy heavenly life, then from the spirit of Christ? sure this is much above us.
Quest. 17. Whence is it that so often one man that hath been a notorious sinner is Converted by a Sermon, when a civiler man, of better nature and life, is never changed though he have that and ten times more persuasions?
Quest. 17. Whence is it that so often one man that hath been a notorious sinner is Converted by a Sermon, when a civiler man, of better nature and life, is never changed though he have that and ten times more perswasions?