A26951:304
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.
1. Mark how wisely God hath ordered it, that the three Essentialitie• in the Divine Nature, Power, Intellection and Will, ⟨p. 100⟩Omnipotency, Wisdom and Goodness, and the three persons in the Trinity, the Father, the Word and the Spirit; and the three Causalities of God, as the Efficient, Directive and final Cause, (of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things) should have three most eminent specimina or impressions in the world, or three most conspicuous works to declare and glorify them; viz. Nature, Grace and Glory. And that God should accordingly stand related to man in three answerable Relations, viz. as our Creator, our Redeemer, and our Perfecter (by Holiness initially, and Glory finally.)
1. Mark how wisely God hath ordered it, that the three Essentialitie• in the Divine Nature, Power, Intellection and Will, ⟨p. 100⟩Omnipotency, Wisdom and Goodness, and the three persons in the Trinity, the Father, the Word and the Spirit; and the three Causalities of God, as the Efficient, Directive and final Cause, (of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things) should have three most eminent specimina or impressions in the world, or three most conspicuous works to declare and glorifie them; viz. Nature, Grace and Glory. And that God should accordingly stand related to man in three answerable Relations, viz. as our Creatour, our Redeemer, and our Perfecter (by Holiness initially, and Glory finally.)
2. How wisely it is ordered, that seeing Mans Love to God is both his greatest duty ▪ and his perfection and felicity, there should be some standing eminent means for the attraction and excitation of our Love: And this should be the most eminent manifestation of the Love of God to us; and withal, of his own most perfect Holiness and Goodness: And that as we have as much need of the sense of his Goodness as of his Power, (Loving him being our chief work) that there should be as observable a demonstration of his Goodness extant, as the world is of his Power.