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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 10: The Practical Directions to live by Faith, a life of Holiness or Love.
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.
Direct. 5. Take heed of all the Antinomian Doctrines before recited, which, to extol the empty Name and Image of Free Grace, do destroy the true principles and motives of holiness and obedience.
Direct. 6. Exercise your Faith upon all the holy Scriptures, Precepts, Promises and Threatenings, and not on one of them alone. For when God hath appointed all conjunctly for this work, you are unlike to have his blessing, or the effect, if you will lay by most of his remedies.
Direct. 6. Exercise your Faith upon all the holy Scriptures, Precepts, Promises and Threatnings, and not on one of them alone. For when God hath appointed all conjunctly for this work, you are unlike to have his blessing, or the effect, if you will lay by most of his remedies.
Direct. 7. Take not that for Holiness and Good Works, which is no such thing; but either mans inventions, or some common gifts of God.
It greatly deludeth the world, to take up a wrong description or character of Holiness in their minds. As 1. The Papists take it for Holiness, to be very observant in their adoration of the supposed transubstantiated Host; to use their relics, pilgrimages, crossings, prayers to Saints and Angels, anointings, Candles, Images, observation of meats and days, penance, auricular confession, praying by numbers and hours on their beads, &c. They think their idle ceremonies are holiness, and that their hurtful austerities, and self-afflictings (by rising in the night, when they might pray as long before they go to bed) (and by whipping themselves) to be very meritorious parts of Religion. And their vows of renouncing marriage and propriety, and of absolute obedience, to be a state of perfection.