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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
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.
Error 58. There is no use for a Justification against any such false accusation before God, who knoweth all mens hearts.
Errour 58. There is no use for a Justification against any such false accusation before God, who knoweth all mens hearts.
Contr. 1. You might as well say, There is no use of judging men according to what they have done, when God knoweth what they have done already. 2. We are to be justified by God before men and Angels, that Christ may be glorified in his Saints, and admired in all them that believe, because the Gospel was believed by them, 2 Thes. 1.10, 11. And not only the mouth of iniquity may be stopped, and open false accusations confuted; but that the prejudices and heart-slanders of the wicked may be refelled, and our righteousness be brought forth as the light, and our judgement as the noon day: That all the false judgements and reproaches of the wicked against the just may be confounded; and they may answer for all their ungodly sayings, and hard speeches (as Enoch prophesied) against the godly: and that they that speak evil of us, because we run not with them to all excess of riot, may give ⟨p. 360⟩an account to him who is ready to judge the quick and the dead, 1 Pet. 4.4, 5. And that all may be set straight which men made crooked, and hidden things be all brought to light.
Contr. 1. You might as well say, There is no use of judging men according to what they have done, when God knoweth what they have done already. 2. We are to be justified by God before men and Angels, that Christ may be glorified in his Saints, and admired in all them that believe, because the Gospel was believed by them, 2 Thes. 1.10, 11. And not only the mouth of iniquity may be stopped, and open false accusations confuted; but that the prejudices and heart-slanders of the wicked may be refelled, and our righteousness be brought forth as the light, and our judgement as the noon day: That all the false judgements and reproaches of the wicked against the just may be confounded; and they may answer for all their ungodly sayings, and hard speeches (as Henoch prophesied) against the godly: and that they that speak evil of us, because we run not with them to all excess of riot, may give