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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.
Nay actually the hopes and fears of another life, among most Heathens, Infidels and Heretics, is the principle of Divine Government, by which God keepeth up most of the order and virtue which is in the world.
Nay actually the hopes and fears of another life, among most Hea•hens, Infidels and Hereticks, is the principle of Divine Government, by which God keepeth up most of the order and virtue which is in the world.
Yea, think what you should be and do your self; as to enemies, and as to secret faults, and as to sensual vices, if you thought there were no life but this: And is it possible that the infinitely powerful, wise and good Creator, can be put to govern all mankind, by mere deceit, and a course of lies? as if he wanted better means?
Yea, think what you should be and do your self; as to enemies, and as to secret faults, and as to sensual vices, if you thought there were no life but this: And is it possible that the infinitely powerful, wise and good Creatour, can be put to govern all mankind, by meer deceit, and a course of lyes? as if he wanted better means?
By how much the better any man is, by so much the more regardful is he of the life to come, and the hopes and fears of another life, are so much the more prevalent with him: And is it possible that God should make men good, to make them the most deceived, and most miserable? Hath he commanded all these cares to be our needless torments, which brutes, and fools, and sottish sinners do all scape? Is the greatest obedience to God, become a sign of the greatest folly, or the way to the greatest loss or disappointment?