A26951:1877
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
Part 3 › Chapter 12: How to use Faith against particular sins?
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.
Direct. 7. Remember still that it is the work of Faith to overcome the world, and the flesh, and to over-rule your sense and appetite; and to make nothing of all that would stand up against ⟨p. 419⟩your heavenly interest; and to crucify it by the Cross of Christ Gal. 6.14. & 5.24. Rom. 8.1, 9, 10, 13. Set Faith therefore upon its proper work; and when you live by Faith, and walk after the Spirit, you will not live by sight, nor walk after the flesh, 2 Cor. 5.7.
Direct. 7. Remember still that it is the work of Faith to overcome the world, and the flesh, and to over-rule your sense and appetite; and to make nothing of all that would stand up against ⟨p. 419⟩your heavenly interest; and to crucifie it by the Cross of Christ Gal. 6.14. & 5.24. Rom. 8.1, 9, 10, 13. Set Faith therefore upon its proper work; and when you live by Faith, and walk after the Spirit, you will not live by sight, nor walk after the flesh, 2 Cor. 5.7.
Direct▪ 8. It is also the work of Faith to take off all the masks of sin, and open its nakedness, and shame, and cast by all shifts, pretences, and excuses. When Satan saith, It is a little one, and the danger is not great, and it will serve thy pleasure, profit, or preferment; Faith should say, Doth not God forbid it? There is no dallying with the fire of God: Be not deceived, man; God will not be mocked! Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall be also reap: If you sow to the flesh, of the flsh you shall reap corruption, Gal, 6. When Satan saith, Ye shall not die: and when the sinner with Adam hideth himself, Faith will call him out to Judgment, and say, What hast thou done? Hast thou eaten of the fruit which God forbade?