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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 7: How to exercise Faith about Pardon of sin and Justification.
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. The wrath of God, and the miseries of this life, and the everlasting miseries of the damned in Hell, being the due effects or punishment of sin, are the second cause of our necessity of pardon: And therefore these also must be thought on seriously, by him that will seriously believe in Christ.
4. The Law of God which we have broken, maketh this punishment our due, Rom. 3. & 5. & 7. And the Justice of God is engaged to secure his own honour, in the honour of his Law and Government.
Direct. 2. Understand well what Christ is and doth, for the Justification of a sinner, and how (not one only) but all the parts of his office are exercised hereunto.
Direct. 2. Ʋnderstand well what Christ is and doth, for the Justification of a sinner, and how (not one only) but all the parts of his office are exercised hereunto.
In the dignity of his person, and perfect original holiness of his natures, divine and humane, he is fitly qualified for his work of our Justification and Salvation.