A26951:1684
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.
50. And of the blessedness of the Saints in Heaven, and the everlasting Kingdom.
These are the Heads, and this is the Method of true Divinity, and the order in which it should lye in the understanding of him that will be complete in knowledge.
These are the Heads, and this is the Method of true Divinity, and the order in which it should lye in the understanding of him that will be compleat in knowledge.
II. And as this is the Intellectual Order of knowledge; so the order which all things must lye in at our hearts and wills, is much more necessary to be observed: 1. That nothing but GOD be loved as the infinite simple good, totally with all the heart, and finally for himself: And that nothing at all be loved with any Love, which is not purely subordinate to the Love of God, or which causeth us to love him ever the less.
2. That the blessed person of our Mediator, as in the Humane Nature glorified, be loved above all creatures next to God: Because there is most of the Divines Perfections appearing in him.