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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
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.
1. A pampered appetite is unruly; and feedeth your concupiscence. The flesh is now become our most dangerous enemy; and therefore it must be dangerous to pamper it, to the strengthening of its lusts: When even Paul was put to buffet and tame it, and bring it into subjection, for fear of proving a cast-away after all his wondrous labours.
2. The pleasing of the appetite too much, corrupteth the delight and relish of the soul. Delight in God, and Heaven, and Holiness, is the sum and life of true Religion; and the delights of sense and fleshly appetite, turn away the soul from this, and are most mortal enemies to these true delights. For they that are after the flesh, do mind or savour the things of the flesh; and they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit, Rom. 8.6, 7. And the carnal mind is enmity to God: if it cannot be subject to his Law, certainly it is unfit to relish the sweetness of his Love, and spiritual mercies.
2. The pleasing of the appetite too much, corrupteth the delight and rellish of the soul. Delight in God, and Heaven, and Holiness, is the summ and life of true Religion; and the delights of sense and fleshly appetite, turn away the soul from this, and are most mortal enemies to these true delights. For they that are after the flesh, do mind or savour the things of the flesh; and they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit, Rom. 8.6, 7. And the carnal mind is enmity to God: if it cannot be subject to his Law, certainly it is unfit to rellish the sweetness of his Love, and spiritual mercies.