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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.
And let your next question be [Have I yet got that good which God doth offer me? Have I any considerable benefit to show, which I have received by this affliction since it came?] If not, why should you desire it to be taken away? Play not the Hypocrite in speaking that good of an afflicting God, which you do not seriously believe: If you believe that God is wiser than you, to know what is fittest for you, and that he is better than you, and therefore hath better ends than you can have; and that really he offereth you far greater good by your sufferings, than he taketh from you: Let your affections then be agreeable to this belief: Are you afraid of your own commodity? Do you impatiently long to be delivered from your gain? are you so childish as to pull off the plaster, if you believe that it is curing the sore? and that it cannot be well and safely done without it? Do you call it the fruit of Gods Wisdom and Love, and yet be as weary of it, as if there were nothing in it but his wrath? Trust God with his work who never faileth; and be careful of your own, who are conscious of untrustiness.
And let your next question be [Have I yet got that good which God doth offer me? Have I any considerable benefit to sh•w, which I have received by this affliction since it came?] If not, why should you desire it to be taken away? Play not the Hypocrite in speaking that good of an afflicting God, which you do not seriously believe: If you believe that God is wiser than you, to know what is fittest for you, and that he is better than you, and therefore hath better ends than you can have; and that really he offereth you far greater good by your sufferings, than he taketh from you: Let your affections then be agreeable to this belief: Are you afraid of your own commodity? Do you impatiently long to be delivered from your gain? are you so childish as to pull off the plaister, if you believe that it is curing the sore? and that it cannot be well and safely done without it? Do you call it the fruit of Gods Wisdom and Love, and yet be as weary of it, as if there were nothing in it but his wrath? Trust God with his work who never faileth; and be careful of your own, who are conscious of untrustiness.