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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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Or if any shall think, that all this proveth not a demonstration of Justice on the Redeemer to be absolutely necessary, but that God could have pardoned the penitent without it; it is nevertheless manifest, that this was a very wise and congruous way: As he that cannot prove that God could not have illuminated, and moved, and quickened the inferior sensitives without the Sun, may yet prove that the Sun is a noble creature, in whose operations Gods Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness do appear.
Or if any shall think, that all this proveth not a demonstration of Justice on the Redeemer to be absolutely necessary, but that God could have pardoned the penitent without it; it is nevertheless manifest, that this was a very wise and congruous way: As he that cannot prove that God could not have illuminated, and moved, and quickened the inferiour sensitives without the Sun, may yet prove that the Sun is a noble creature, in whose operations Gods Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness do appear.
14. And how agreeable is this doctrine of the Sacrifice of Christ, to the common doctrine of Sacrificing, which hath been received throughout almost all the world! And who can imagine any other original of that practice, so early and so universally obtaining, than either divine revelation, or somewhat even in nature, which beareth witness to the necessity ⟨p. 104⟩of a demonstration of Gods Justice and displeasure against sin?
15. How wisely is it determined of God, that he who undertakes all •is, should be Man, and yet more than Man, even God? That the Monarch of Mankind, and the Mediator, and the Teacher of Man, and the Sacrifice for sin, should not be only of another kind; but that he be one that is fit to be familiar with man, and to be interested naturally in his concerns; and one that is by nature and nearness capable of these undertakings and relations? And yet that he be so high and near the Father, as may put a sufficient value on his works, and make him most meet to mediate for us?