A26951:572
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.
They know how God as the first-mover, predetermineth the motions of all Agents, natural and free, and whether his influence be upon the essence, or faculty, or act immediately; and what that influx is. In a word, how voluminously do they darken counsel by words without knowledge? As if they had never read Gods large expostulation with Job (42 &c.) Deut. 29 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed, unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this Law. Even an Angel could say to Manoah, Judg. 13.18. Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret? No man hath seen God at any time, (saving) the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father; he hath declared him, Joh. 1.18. And what he hath declared we may know: But how much more do these men pretend to know, than ever Christ declared? But who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his Counsellor? Rom. 11.34.
They know how God as the first-mover, predetermineth the motions of all Agents, natural and free, and whether his influence be upon the essence, or faculty, or act immediately; and what that influx is. In a word, how voluminously do they darken counsel by words without knowledge? As if they had never read Gods large expostulation with Job (42 &c.) Deut. 29 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed, unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this Law. Even an Angel could say to Manoah, Judg. 13.18. Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret? No man hath seen God at any time, (saving) the only begotten Son, who is in the bosome of the Father; he hath declared him, Joh. 1.18. And what he hath declared we may know: But how much more do these men pretend to know, than ever Christ declared? But who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his Counsellor?