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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
Part 2 › Chapter 7: The means of making known all this infallibly to us.
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10. To this we may add, the constant use of Discipline in these Churches: it having been their constant law and practice, to enquire into the faith and lives of the members, and to censure or cast out those that impenitently violated their Religion: which showeth, that de facto that Faith and Religion was then received; and is a means of delivering it down to us. Under which we may mention 1. Their Synods ⟨p. 132⟩and Officers. 2. And their Canons by which this Discipline was exercised.
10. To this we may add, the constant use of Discipline in these Churches: it having been their constant law and practice, to enquire into the faith and lives of the members, and to censure or cast out those that impenitently violated their Religion: which sheweth, that de facto that Faith and Religion was then received; and is a means of delivering it down to us. Under which we may mention 1. Their Synods ⟨p. 132⟩and Officers. 2. And their Canons by which this Discipline was exercised.
11. Another tradition hath been the published confessions of their Faith and R•l•g•on in those Apologies, which persecutions and calumnies have caused them to write.
12. And another is, all those published Confutations of the many heresies, which in every age have risen up; and all the controversies which the Churches have had with them, and among themselves.