A26951:1578
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.
Prop. 16. Holiness is the true Morality; and they that prefer the preaching, and practice of Faith in Christ, b• fore the preaching and practice of Holiness, and sleight this as mere morality, do prefer the means before the end, and their physic before their health: And they that preach or think to practise Holiness, without Faith in Christ, do dream of a cure without the only Physician of souls. And they that preach up Morality ⟨p. 366⟩as consisting in mere justice, charity to men, and temperance, without the Love of God in Christ, do take a branch cut off and withered, for the tree.
Prop. 16. Holiness is the true Morality; and they that prefer the preaching, and practice of Faith in Christ, b• fore the preaching and practice of Holiness, and sleight this as meer morality, do prefer the means before the end, and their physick before their health: And they that preach or think to practise Holiness, without Faith in Christ, do dream of a cure without the only Physician of souls. And they that preach up Morality ⟨p. 366⟩as consisting in meer justice, charity to men, and temperance, without the Love of God in Christ, do take a branch cut off and withered, for the tree.
Some ignorant Sectaries cry down all Preaching, as mere morality, which doth not frequently toss the name of Christ, and Free Grace.
Some ignorant Sectaries cry down all Preaching, as meer morality, which doth not frequently toss the name of Christ, and Free Grace.