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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 8: The rest of the Directions for strengthening our Faith.
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Direct. 2. Compare the Christian Religion with all other in the world: And seeing it is certain that some way or other God hath revealed, to guide man in his duty, unto his end, and it is no other; you will see that it must needs be this.
1. The way of the Heathenish Idolaters cannot be it: The principles and the effects of their Religion, may easily satisfy you of this. The only true God would not command Idolatry, nor befriend such ignorance, error and wickedness as doth constitute their Religion, and are produced by it, as its genuine fruits.
1. The way of the Heathenish Idolaters cannot be it: The principles and the effects of their Religion, may easily satisfie you of this. The only true God would not command Idolatry, nor befriend such ignorance, errour and wickedness as doth constitute their Religion, and are produced by it, as its genuine fruits.
2. The way of Judaism cannot be it: For it doth but lead us up to Christianity, and bear witness to Christ, and of it self, is evidently insufficient; its multitude of ceremonies being but the pictures and alphabet of that truth which Jesus Christ hath brought to light, and which hath evidence, which to us is more convincing, than that of the Jewish Law,