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The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…
The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb. 11, 1, formerly preached before His Majesty, and published by his command, with another added for the fuller application : the second is instructions for confirming believers in the Christian faith : the third is directions how to live by faith, or how to exercise it upon all occasions / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1670
Part 3 › Chapter 5: Directions how to live by Faith upon Gods Promises.
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.
Matth. 10.22. He that endureth to the end shall be saved.
24. Promises to believers in sickness and at death.
1 Cor. 11.32. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Heb. 12.6, 7, 8, 11. For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every Son whom he receiveth: If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with Sons—Shall we not be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live—But he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness: No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby.
James 5.14. Is any sick, let them send for the Elders of the Church—The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
John 11.3. He whom thou lovest is sick—
Psal. 41.1, 2, 3. Blessed is the man that considereth the poor: the Lord shall deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord shall preserve him and keep him alive—The Lord will strengthen him upon the b•d of languishing: Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
2 Cor. 5.1, &c. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens. For in this we groan earnestly, desiring to be clothed upon, with our house which is from Heaven—For we that are in us tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality may be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought this for the self same thing is God; who also hath given to us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. (For we walk by faith, not by sight) we are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
2 Cor. 5.1, &c. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens. For in this we groan earnestly, desiring to be clothed upon, with our house which is from Heaven—For we that are in us tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality may be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought this for the self same thing is God; who also hath given to us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are alwaies confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. (For we walk by faith, not by sight) we are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Phil. 1.20, 21, 23, Now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. For to me to ⟨p. 293⟩live is Christ, and to die is gain—I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better.
Luke 23.43. To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.
Rev. 14.13. I heard a voice from Heaven, saying to me, write, Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord, from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.
Heb. 2.14. Forasmuch as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death, he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the Devil; and deliver them who through fear of death, were all their life time subject to bondage.
Psal. 68.20. He that is our God, is the God of salvation, and to God the Lord belong the issues from death.
2 Tim. 1.10. Who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light by the Gospel.
1 Cor. 15.54. O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the Law: but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
25. Promises to persevering Believers, of the Resurrection unto life, and of Justification in Judgement, and of Glorification.