A26951:291
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. III. The Evidences of Faith.
These things in the Order of your enquiry being presupposed, proceed to the consideration of the Evidences themselves, which fully prove the Christian Verity: And here (omitting the preparatory considerations recited at large in my [Reasons of the Christian Religion] I shall only set before you the grand Evidence it self, with a brief recital of some of those means, which bring it down to our notice in these times.
THese things in the Order of your enquiry being presupposed, proceed to the consideration of the Evidences themselves, which fully prove the Christian Verity: And here (omitting the preparatory considerations recited at large in my [Reasons of the Christian Religion] I shall only set before you the grand Evidence it self, with a brief recital of some of those means, which bring it down to our notice in these times.
The great infallible witness of CHRIST, is the SPIRIT of GOD, or the Holy Ghost: Or that divine operation of the Holy Spirit, which infallibly proveth the attestation of God himself, as interesting him in it, as the principal cause.