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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 15: How to be poor in spirit. And how to escape the pride of Prosperity.
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.
II. After these three general Directions, I shall briefly name a few particular ones.
Direct, 1. Remember continually what you are, and what you were, what your bodies are, and will be; and what your souls are by the pollution of sin; and how close it still adhereth to you; and from how great a misery Christ redeemed you: He neither knoweth his body, nor his soul, his sin, or misery, nor Christ, nor grace, who is a servant unto Pride.
Direct. 2 Remember the continual presence of the most holy dreadful God: And can Pride lift up the head before him?
Direct. 3 Look to the example of a humbled Saviour, and learn of God incarnate to be lowly, Matth. 11.29. From his birth to his ascension, you may read the strangest Lecture of Lowliness, that ever was delivered to the haughty world.