A26951:314
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.
11. And how meet was it that he who was the Monarch or Deputy of God, should be also the Mediator! and that a polluted sinner dwelling in clay, should not come immediately to God, but by a Reconciler, who is worthy to prevail.
11. And how meet was it that he who was the Monarch or Deputy of God, should be also the Mediatour! and that a polluted sinner dwelling in clay, should not come immediately to God, but by a Reconciler, who is worthy to prevail.
12. And when we had lost the knowledge of God, and of the world to come, and of the way thereto; yea and of our selves too, and our own immortality of soul; how meet was it that a sure Revelation should settle us; that we might know what to seek, and whither to return, and by what way! seeing Light must be the guide of our Love and Power. And who could so infallibly and satisfactorily do this, as a Teacher sent from God, of perfectest knowledge and veracity.
13. And when God intended the free forgiveness of our sins, how meet was it that he who would be the Mediator of our pardon, should yield to those terms, which are consistent with the ends of Government, and expose not the wisdom, and veracity, and justice, and the Laws of God to the worlds contempt: If no mark of odiousness should be put upon sin, nor any demonstration of Justice been made, the Devil would ⟨p. 103⟩have triumphed, and said, Did not I say truer than God? when he told you of dying, and I told you that you should not die? And if the grand penalty had been remitted to the world, for four thousand years together successively, without any sufficient demonstration of Gods Justice undertaken, why should any sinner have feared Hell to the worlds end? If you say, that Repentance alone might be sufficient, I answer, 1. That is no vindication of the Justice and Truth of the Law-maker. 2. Who should bring a sinner to Repentance, whose heart is corrupted with the love of sin? 3. It would hinder Repentance, if men knew that God can forgive all the world upon bare Repentance, without any reparation of the breaches made by sin, in the order of the world. For if he that threateneth future misery or death for sin, can absolutely dispense with that commination, they may think that he may do so as easily by his threatening of death to the impenitent.