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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.
CHAP. XIX. How to live by Faith in Adversity.
IF I should give you distinct Directions, for the several cases of poverty, wrongs, persecutions, unkindnesses, contempt, sickness, &c. it would swell this Treatise yet bigger than I intended. I shall therefore take up with this general Advice.
Direct. 1. In all Adversity remember the evil of sin, which is the cause, and the Holiness and Justice of God which is exercised; and then the hatred of sin, and the love of Gods Holiness and Justice will make you quietly submit. You will then say, when ⟨p. 494⟩Repentance is serious, I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, Micah 7.9. And, why doth living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Lam. 3.39. Let us search and try our ways, and turn again unto the Lord; for he hath smitten, and he will heal, &c. v. 40, 41.
Direct. 1. In all Adversity remember the evil of sin, which is the cause, and the Holiness and Justice of God which is exercised; and then the hatred of sin, and the love of Gods Holiness and Justice will make you quietly submit. You will then say, when ⟨p. 494⟩Repentance is serious, I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, Micah 7.9. And, why doth living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?