A26951:1802
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.
The Legislative Will of God de debi•• institutive, (which is it that Damascene, Chrysostom, and the School-men mean by his Antecedent will, if they speak properly) which ever goeth before mans actions (duties or sins, or as the Fathers called them merits or demerits) is confounded by many with the acts of his Judgment and Execution (called his consequent Will, because it ever presupposeth mens precedent actions:) Or, his works, as Law-giver, Judge and Executioner, are oft confounded.
The Legislative Will of God de debi•• institutive, (which is it that Damascene, Chrysostome, and the School-men mean by his Antecedent will, if they speak properly) which ever goeth before mans actions (duties or sins, or as the Fathers called them merits or demerits) is confounded by many with the acts of his Judgment and Execution (called his consequent Will, because it ever presupposeth mens precedent actions:) Or, his works, as Law-giver, Judge and Executioner, are oft confounded.
And so are the Orders of his Precepts, Promises, and penal Threats, and the Conditions of his Promises: and the order of his Precepts among themselves; and of his Promises as one respecteth another.
And our Relations to God, and the several respective duties of those Relations, are ordinarily much confounded.