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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
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13. When you have soundly proved your foundation, take not every difficult objection which you cannot answer, to be a sufficient cause of doubting: For if the fundamentals be proved truths, you may trust to that proof, and be sure that there are ways of solving the seeming inconsistent points, though you are not yet acquainted with them. There are few Truths so clear, which a sophister may not clog with difficulties: And there is scarce any man that hath so comprehensive a knowledge of the most certain Truths, as to be able to answer all that can be said against it.
13. When you have soundly proved your foundation, take not every difficult objection which you cannot answer, to be a sufficient cause of doubting: For if the fundamentals be proved truths, you may trust to that proof, and be sure that there are waies of solving the seeming inconsistent points, though you are not yet acquainted with them. There are few Truths so clear, which a sophister may not clog with difficulties: And there is scarce any man that hath so comprehensive a knowledge of the most certain Truths, as to be able to answer all that can be said against it.
14. Come not to this study in a melancholy or distracted frame of mind: For in such a case you are (ordinarily) incapable of so great a work, as the trial of the grounds of Faith: And therefore must live upon the ground-work before laid, and wait for a fitter time to clear it.
14. Come not to this study in a melancholy or distracted frame of mind: For in such a case you are (ordinarily) incapable of so great a work, as the tryal of the grounds of Faith: And therefore must live upon the ground-work before laid, and wait for a fitter time to clear it.