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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 9: General Directions for exercising the Life of Faith.
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.
Direct. 11. Set not any other Graces against Faith; as raising a jealousy left the honouring of one, be a diminution of the honour of the other: But labour to see the necessary and harmonious consent of all, and how all contribute to the common end.
Direct. 11. Set not any other Graces against Faith; as raising a jealousie left the honouring of one, be a diminution of the honour of the other: But labour to see the necessary and harmonious consent of all, and how all contribute to the common end.
Though other graces are not Faith, and have not the office proper to Faith; yet every one is conjunct in the work of our salvation, and in our pleasing and glorifying God: Some of them being the concomitants of Faith, and some of them its end, to which it is a means: Yea, oft-times the words [Faith and Repentance] are used as signifying much of the same works, the latter named from the respect to the term from which, and the former from the respect to part of the term to which the soul is moving: And Faith is oft taken as containing somewhat of Love and Desire in it; and he that will without any prejudice and partiality study Paul where he opposeth Faith and Works, as to our Justification, shall find by his almost constant naming [the Works of the Law] or by the context and analysis, that indeed his chief meaning is to prove, that we are justified by the Christian Religion, and must be s•ved by it, and not by the Jewish ▪ which the adversaries of Christianity then pleaded for, and trusted to.
Direct. 12. Set not the helps of Faith as if they were against ⟨p. 161⟩Faith; but understand their several places and offices, and use them accordingly.