A26951:1708
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.
2. The Promises and Jewish Law (of Types, &c.) was sufficient in its own kind, to acquaint men that a Saviour must be sent into the world, to reveal the Will of God more fully, and to be a sacrifice for sin, and to make reconciliation between God and man, and to give a greater measure of the Spirit, and to renew mens souls, and bring them to full perfection, and to the blessed fruition of God. The Jewish Scriptures teach them all this, though it tell them not many of the Articles of our Christian Belief.
3. The Christian Gospel is sufficient in its own kind, to teach men first to believe aright, in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and then to love and live aright.
When I say that each of these is sufficient in its own kind, the meaning is, not that these outward means are of themselves sufficient without the Holy Spirit; for that were to be sufficient not only in suo genere, but in alieno vel in omni genere; not only for its own part and work; but for the Spirits part also: But other causes being supposed to concur, it is sufficient for its own part: As my Pen is a sufficient Pen, though it be not sufficient to write without my hand.