A26951:1750
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
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12. All corporal duties must be also spiritual (by doing them from a spiritual principle, to a spiritual end, in a spiritual manner:) But it is not necessary that every spiritual duty be also corporal.
13. The duties immediately about God our end, are greater than those about any of the means (caeteris paribus.) And yet those that are about lower objects, may be greater by accident, ⟨p. 393⟩and in their season: As to be saving a mans life is then greater than to be exciting the mind to the acting of Divine Love or Fear: But yet it is God the greatest object then, which puteth the greatness upon the latter duty; both by commanding it, and so making it an act more pleasing to him: and because that the Love of God is supposed to be the concurring spring of that Love to man, which we show in seeking their preservation.
13. The duties immediately about God our end, are greater than those about any of the means (caeteris paribus.) And yet those that are about lower objects, may be greater by accident, ⟨p. 393⟩and in their season: As to be saving a mans life is then greater than to be exciting the mind to the acting of Divine Love or Fear: But yet it is God the greatest object then, which puteth the greatness upon the latter duty; both by commanding it, and so making it an act more pleasing to him: and because that the Love of God is supposed to be the concurring spring of that Love to man, which we shew in seeking their preservation.