A26951:1659
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.
25. And next, mens behaviour under that explained Covenant.
26. And Gods sentence and execution upon them thereupon.
27. Then we come to the fullness of time, and to explain the work of Redemption distinctly. And 1. Its Original, the God of Nature giving the world a Physician or a Saviour: 2. The Ends: 3. The constitutive Causes: Where 1. Of the Person of the Redeemer, in his Essence, as God and Man, and in his perfections, both essential, and modal, and accidental.
27. Then we come to the fulness of time, and to explain the work of Redemption distinctly. And 1. Its Original, the God of Nature giving the world a Physician or a Saviour: 2. The Ends: 3. The constitutive Causes: Where 1. Of the Person of the Redeemer, in his Essence, as God and Man, and in his perfections, both essential, and modal, and accidental.
28. And 2. Of the fundamental works of our Redemption (such as Creation was to the first Administration) viz. (his first Undertaking, Interposition, and Incarnation, being all presupposed.) 1. His perfect Resignation of himself to his Father, and submission to his disposing Will: 2. His perfect subjection and obedience to his Coverning Will: 3. His perfect Love to him: 4. And the suffering by which he expressed all these. The three first meriting of themselves; and the last meriting as a satisfactory Sacrifice, not for it self, but for its usefulness to its proper ends.