A26951:13
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
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.
Your Names stand here in the front of this Treatise, on a double account: First, that (the custom of Writers having given me such an advantage) I may tell the present and future Ages, how much I love and honour your Piety, Sobriety, Integrity and Moderation, in an Age when such Virtues grow into contempt, or into lifeless Images and Names: And how much I am my self your debtor, ⟨image 4⟩for the manifold expressions of your love; and that in an Age when […] the superio•• faculties is ou• of fashion; and towards such as I, is grown • crime Sincerity and […] are things that shall be honourable, when Hypocrisy and Malice have done their worst: But they are most conspicuous and refulgent in times of ••rity; and when the shame of their contraries se• them off.
YOur Names stand here in the front of this Treatise, on a double account: First, that (the custom of Writers having given me such an advantage) I may tell the present and future Ages, how much I love and honour your Piety, Sobriety, Integrity and Moderation, in an Age when such Vertues grow into contempt, or into lifeless Images and Names: And how much I am my self your debter, ⟨image 4⟩for the manifold expressions of your love; and that in an Age when 〈…〉 the superio•• ••culties is ou• of f•shion; and towards such as I, is grown • crime Sincerity and 〈…〉 are things that shall be honourable, when Hypocrisie and Malice have done their worst: But they are most conspicuous and refulgent in times of ••rity; and when the shame of their contraries se• them off.