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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.
1. That great and known sins must have a particular repentance, appeareth, 1. In that it is utterly inconsistent with the sincerity of habitual Repentance, not to be actual, when sins are known, and come into our deliberate remembrance. 2. By all those texts which require such repentance, confession and forsaking, 1 John 2.1, 2. 1 John 1.9. Prov. 18.13. Psal. 32. & 51. 2 Cor. 7.11. Rev, 2.5, 16. Luke 13.3, 5. Jam. 5.14, 15. Luke 6.37. & 11.4. Repentance consisteth chiefly in forsaking sin; and if men forsake not such known wilful sins, they are wicked men, and therefore are not pardoned.
2. That unavoidable frailties, and mere infirmities, and unknown faults, are pardoned immediately to them that are truly godly, and have a general and implicit Repentance, is plain, because else no man in the world could be saved; because every man hath such infirmities and unknown sins, 1 John 1.10.
2. That unavoidable frailties, and meer infirmities, and unknown faults, are pardoned immediately to them that are truly godly, and have a general and implicit Repentance, is plain, because else no man in the world could be saved; because every man hath such infirmities and unknown sins,