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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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17. And as a pattern of all other virtue is still before us; so how fit was it, especially that we should have a lively example, to teach us to contemn this deceitful world, and to set little comparatively, by reputation, wealth, preeminence, grandeur, pleasures, yea and life it self, which are the things which all that perish prefer before God and immortality?
17. And as a pattern of all other vertue is still before us; so how fit was it, especially that we should have a lively example, to teach us to contemn this deceitful world, and to set little comparatively, by reputation, wealth, preheminence, grandeur, pleasures, yea and life it self, which are the things which all that perish prefer before God and immortality?
18. And how needful is it that they that must be overtaken with renewed faults, should have a daily remedy and refuge, and a plaster for their wounds; and a more acceptable name than their own to plead with God for pardon?
18. And how needful is it that they that must be overtaken with renewed faults, should have a daily remedy and refuge, and a plaister for their wounds; and a more acceptable name than their own to plead with God for pardon?
19. How meet was it that our Saviour should rise from the dead (and consequently that he should die) to show us, that his Sacrifice was accepted, and that there is indeed another life for man; and that death and the grave shall not still detain us?
19. How meet was it that our Saviour should rise from the dead (and consequently that he should die) to shew us, that his Sacrifice was accepted, and that there is indeed another life for man; and that death and the grave shall not still detain us?