A26951:382
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.
2. The same may be said of Gods drowning the old world, and the preserving of Noah and his family in the Ark.
3. And of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire from Heaven.
4. The many miracles done by Moses upon Pharaoh and the Egyptians, and in the opening of the Red Sea, and in the feeding of the Israelites in the wilderness, and keeping their cloths from wearing for forty years; and the pillar which went before them as a fire by night, and a cloud by day, for so long time; and the darkness, and thunder, and trembling of the Mount at the giving of the Law; with the rest of the Miracles then done, not in a corner, or before a few, but before all the people; who were persuaded to receive and obey the Law, by the reason of these motives which their eyes had seen: And if all this had been false; if no plagues had been showed on Egypt; if no Red Sea had opened; if no Pillar had gone before them; if no such terrible sights and sounds at Mount Sinai had prepared them for the Law; such reasons would have been so unfit to have persuaded them to obedience, that they would rather with any reasonable creatures, have procured scorn.
4. The many miracles done by Moses upon Pharaoh and the Egyptians, and in the opening of the Red Sea, and in the feeding of the Israelites in the wilderness, and keeping their cloths from wearing for forty years; and the pillar which went before them as a fire by night, and a cloud by day, for so long time; and the darkness, and thunder, and trembling of the Mount at the giving of the Law; with the rest of the Miracles then done, not in a corner, or before a few, but before all the people; who were perswaded to receive and obey the Law, by the reason of these motives which their eyes had seen: And if all this had been false; if no plagues had been shewed on Egypt; if no Red Sea had opened; if no Pillar had gone before them; if no such terrible sights and sounds at Mount Sinai had prepared them for the Law; such reasons would have been so unfit to have perswaded them to obedience, that they would rather with any reasonable creatures, have procured scorn.