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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.
Direct. 7. By Faith deliver up your selves to GOD, as your Creator, and your Owner, and live to him as those that perceive they are absolutely his own.
The word [GOD] doth signify both Gods essence, and his three great Relations unto man, and we take him not for our God, if we take him not as in these Divine Relations. Therefore God would have Faith to be expressed at our entrance into his Church, by Baptism; because a believing soul, doth deliver up it self to God: The first and greatest work of Faith, is to enter us sincerely into the holy Covenant: In which this is the first part, that we take God for our Owner, and resign up our selves to him, without either express or implicit reserve, as those that are absolutely his own. And though these words are by any hypocrite quickly spoken, yet when the thing is really done, the very heart of sin is broken: For as the Apostle saith, He that is dead is freed from sin, Rom. 6.7. Because a dead man hath no faculties to do evil: So we may say, He that is resigned to God as his absolute Owner, is freed from sin; because he that is not his own, hath nothing which is his own; and therefore hath nothing to alienate from his Owner. We are not our Own, we are bought with a price (which is the second title of Gods propriety in us) and therefore must glorify God in body and spirit as being his, 1 Cor. 6.20.
The word [GOD] doth signifie both Gods essence, and his three great Relations unto man, and we take him not for our God, if we take him not as in these Divine Relations. Therefore God would have Faith to be expressed at our entrance into his Church, by Baptism; because a believing soul, doth deliver up it self to God: The first and greatest work of Faith, is to enter us sincerely into the holy Covenant: In which this is the first part, that we take God for our Owner, and resign up our selves to him, without either express or implicit reserve, as those that are absolutely his own. And though these words are by any hypocrite quickly spoken, yet when the thing is really done, the very heart of sin is broken: For as the Apostle saith, He that is dead is freed from sin,