A26951:196
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.
Having done with this general conviction and exhortation to unbelieving Hypocrites, I proceed to acquaint Believers with their Duty, in several particulars.
HAving done with this general conviction and exhortation to unbelieving Hypocrites, I proceed to acquaint Believers with their Duty, in several particulars.
1. Worship God as Believers; serve him with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire, Heb. 12.28, 29. A seeing faith, if well excited, would kindle love, desire, fear, and all praying graces. No man prays well, that doth not well know what he prays for. When it comes to seeing, all men can cry loud, and pray when praying will do no good. They will not then speak sleepily, or by rote, Fides intuendo, amorem recipit, amorem sus••tat: Cor flagrans amore desideria, gemitus, orations spirat. Faith is the burning-glass which beholding God, receiveth the beams of his communicated love, and inflameth the heart with love to him again; which mounteth up by groans and prayers, till it reach its original, and love for ever rest in love.
1. Worship God as Believers; serve him with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire, Heb. 12.28, 29. A seeing faith, if well excited, would kindle love, desire, fear, and all praying graces. No man prayes well, that doth not well know what he prayes for. When it comes to seeing, all men can cry loud, and pray when praying will do no good. They will not then speak sleepily, or by rote, Fides intuendo, amorem recipit, amorem sus••tat: Cor flagrans amore desideria, gemitus, orationes spirat. Faith is the burning-glass which beholding God, receiveth the beams of his communicated love, and inflameth the heart with love to him again; which mounteth up by groans and prayers, till it reach its original, and love for ever rest in love.