A26951:1803
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.
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.
The work of the Holy Ghost (as we are baptized into the belief of him) is poorly, lamely and disorderly opened, to the encouraging of the carnal on one hand, or the Enthusiasts on the other.
Law and Gospel, and Covenant and Covenant; words and works; the precepts of Christ, and the operations of the Spirit, are seldom thought on in their proper place and order, and differences.
In a word, Consectaries are confounded with principles: Nature, Medicine, and Health; the precepts and parts of Primitive Sanctity, with the precepts and means of Medicinal Grace; the End and the Means; yea nothing more usually than words and things are confounded and disordered by the most (that I say not by us all.)