A26951:252
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.
Every King and mortal Judge can punish faults against Man with death: And hath God no greater or further punishment, ⟨p. 86⟩for sins as committed against himself? And are his rewards no greater than a mans?
These, and many more such Evidences may assure you, that there is another life of Rewards and punishments; and that this life is not our final state, but only a •ime of preparation thereunto. Settle this deeply and fixedly in your minds.
8. And look up to the heavenly Regions, and think, Is this world so replenished with inhabitants, both Sea, and Land, and Air it self? And can I dream that the vast and glorious Orbs and Regions, are all uninhabited? O• that they have not more numerous and glorious possessors, than this small opacous spot of earth.
And then think, that those higher creatures are intellectual spirits: (This is many ways apparent) and also of the communion which they have with man: And when we find also an intellectual nature in our selves, why should we not believe, that our likeness of nature, doth infer our likeness in our future duration and abode.