A26923:1066
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.
§. 10. This Certainty is not by an immediate Word or Revelation of the Spirit in us; but yet the Spirit is all these ways the cause of it in the Faithful. 1. The Spirit working us to God's Image and Will, is our assuring-Evidence, or the Minor in that Argument, whose Conclusion we are assured of (as the Spirit in the Word is the Major.) 2. The Spirit in Believers helpeth them to perceive his own Works in them, and know their Evidence: 3. And also to rejoice in that perception. This is the Witness of the Spirit which we mean, and not immediate Revelation.
§. 10. This Certainty is not by an immediate Word or Revelation of the Spirit in us; but yet the Spirit is all these ways the cause of it in the Faithful. 1. The Spirit working us to God's Image and Will, is our assuring-Evidence, or the Minor in that Argument, whose Conclusion we are assured of (as the Spirit in the Word is the Major.) 2. The Spirit in Believers helpeth them to perceive his own Works in them, and know their Evidence: 3. And also to rejoyce in that perception. This is the Witness of the Spirit which we mean, and not immediate Revelation.
§. 11. Though Hope be sometimes about things certain, yet it is often also about that which we are not certain of: And more have true Hopes of Salvation, than have Assurance of it, or of their Title to it: For Hope may be exercised upon probabilities, and most usually it is so.
§. 12. Strong Probability, with little reason of doubting, may cause such strong Hopes as may cause us to live and die with comfort: If doubting be small, and Hope be great, the Peace and Joy will be greater than the fear and trouble.
§. 12. Strong Probability, with little reason of doubting, may cause such strong Hopes as may cause us to live and die with comfort: If doubting be small, and Hope be great, the Peace and Ioy will be greater than the fear and trouble.