A26923:1059
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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.
§. 3. II. And no doubt but a comfortable degree of Assurance is attainable, or else God would never have so fully differenced the Righteous and the Wicked, and commanded all to examine and try themselves, and to make sure: But this I have often elsewhere proved.
§. 4. III. But all true Believers have not Assurance of their Justification, because they are not certain that their Faith is such as hath the promise of Justification: He that believeth perceiveth that he believeth, but yet may be uncertain that his Faith is so sincere, as no unjustified man can have.
§. 5. Their Justification is real, or true, or certain in it self; but the Evidence of it may be dark, and their perception of the Evidence defective; from whence it is to them uncertain; that is, not known with that full satisfaction of mind, which we call Assurance.
§. 6. Yea, Experience telleth us, That it is but a small part of the most religious Christians, who will say themselves▪ That they are certain of their Justification; and of those few that are forwardest to say so, all have it not.