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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 18: How by Faith to overcome unmercifulness to the needy.
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. 4. Do as you would be done by: And ask your selves how you would be judged of and used, if you were in their condition your selves.
Direct. 5. Set the life of Christ and his Apostles before you; and remember what a delight it was to them to do good: And at how much dearer rate Christ showed mercy to you and others, than he requireth you to show mercy at to any.
Direct. 5. Set the life of Christ and his Apostles before you; and remember what a delight it was to them to do good: And at how much dearer rate Christ shewed mercy to you and others, than he requireth you to shew mercy at to any.
Direct. 6. Read over Christs precepts of Charity and Mercy, that a thing so frequently urged on you, may not be senslesly despised by you.
Direct. 7. Remember that Mercy is a duty applauded by all the world: As humane interest requireth it; so humane nature approveth it in all. Good and bad, even all the world do love the merciful: Or if the partial interest of some proud and covetous persons (as the Popish Clergy for instance) do call for cruelty against those that are not of their mind, and for their profit; yet this goeth so much against the stream of the common interest, and the light of humane nature, that mankind will still abhor their cruelty, though they may affright a few that are near them from uttering their detestation. All men speak well of a merciful man, and ill of the unmerciful.