A26951:143
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.
But the unseen world is not thus mutable; Eternal life is begun in the Believer. The Church is built on Christ the Rock; and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. Fix here, and you shall never be removed.
But the unseen world is not thus mutable; Eternal life is begun in the Believer. The Church is built on Christ the Reck; and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. Fix here, and you shall never be removed.
4. Hence followeth another difference: The mutable creature doth impart a disgraceful mutability to the soul that chooseth it. It disappointeth and deceiveth: And therefore the ungodly are of one mind to day, and another to morrow! In health they are all for pleasure, and commodity, and honour: and at death they cry out on it as deceitful Vanity: In health they cannot abide this strictness, this meditating, and seeking, and preparing for the life to come; but at death or judgement, they will all be of another mind! Then O that they had been so wise as to know their time: and O that they h•d lived as holily as the best! They are now the bold opposers and reproachers of an holy life: But then they would be glad it had been their own: They would eat their words, and will be down in the mouth, and stand to never a word they say, when sight, and sense, and judgement, shall convince them.
4. Hence followeth another difference: The mutable creature doth impart a disgraceful mutability to the soul that chuseth it. It disappointeth and deceiveth: And therefore the ungodly are of one mind to day, and another to morrow! In health they are all for pleasure, and commodity, and honour: and at death they cry out on it as deceitful Vanity: In health they cannot abide this strictness, this meditating, and seeking, and preparing for the life to come; but at death or judgement, they will all be of another mind! Then O that they had been so wise as to know their time: and O that they h•d lived as holily as the best! They are now the bold opposers and reproachers of an holy life: But then they would be glad it had been their own: They would eat their words, and will be down in the mouth, and stand to never a word they say, when sight, and sense, and judgement, shall convince them.