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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
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.
And for the surer effecting of this knowledge, God doth not only set before us the ascertaining Evidence of his own ⟨p. 5⟩veracity, and the Scriptures Divinity; but moreover, 1. He giveth us to believe, Phil. 1.29. 2 Pet. 1.3. For it is not of our selves, but is the gift of God, Ephes. 2.8. Faith is one of the fruits of the Spirit, Gal. 5.22. By the drawing of the Father, we come to the Son. And he that hath knowledge given from Heaven, will certainly know: and he that hath Faith given him from Heaven, will certainly believe. The heavenly Light will dissipate our darkness, and infallibly illuminate. Whilst God sets before us the glass of the Gospel in which the things invisible are revealed, and also gives us eye sight to behold them, Believers must needs be a heavenly people, as walking in that light which proceedeth from, and leadeth to the celestial everlasting Light.
And for the surer effecting of this knowledge, God doth not only set before us the ascertaining Evidence of his own ⟨p. 5⟩veracity, and the Scriptures Divinity; but moreover, 1. He giveth us to believe, Phil. 1.29. 2 Pet. 1.3. For it is not of our selves, but is the gift of God, Ephes. 2.8. Faith is one of the fruits of the Spirit, Gal. 5.22. By the drawing of the Father, we come to the Son. And he that hath knowledge given from Heaven, will certainly know: and he that hath Faith given him from Heaven, will certainly believe. The heavenly Light will dissipate our darkness, and infallibly illuminate. Whilest God sets before us the glass of the Gospel in which the things invisible are revealed, and also gives us eye sight to behold them, Believers must needs be a heavenly people, as walking in that light which proceedeth from, and leadeth to the celestial everlasting Light.