A26951:596
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 as you must see that your thoughts of Gods Goodness be not false; so also that they be not diminutive and low. As no knowledge is more useful and necessary to us; so nothing is more wonderfully revealed by God, than is his amiable Goodness: For this end he sent his Son into flesh, to declare his Love to the forlorn world, and to call them to behold it, and admire it, John 1 8, 9, 10. & 3.16. 1 John 3.1. Rev. 21.3. And as Christ is the chief glass of the Fathers Love, on this side Heaven; so it is the chief part of the office of Faith, to see Gods Love and Goodness in the face of Christ: Let him not reveal his Love in vain, at so dear a rate, and in a way of such wonderful condescension: Think of his Goodness, as equal to his greatness: And as you see his greatness in the frame of the world; so his goodness in the wonderful work of mans Redemption and Salvation: Let Faith beholding God in Christ, and daily thus gazing on his goodness, or rather tasting it, and feasting on it, be the very sum of all your Religion and ⟨p. 181⟩your lives. This is indeed to live by Faith, when it worketh by that Love, which is our holiness and life.
And as you must see that your thoughts of Gods Goodness be not false; so also that they be not diminutive and low. As no knowledge is more useful and necessary to us; so nothing is more wonderfully revealed by God, than is his amiable Goodness: For this end he sent his Son into flesh, to declare his Love to the forelorn world, and to call them to behold it, and admire it, John 1 8, 9, 10. & 3.16. 1 John 3.1. Rev. 21.3. And as Christ is the chief glass of the Fathers Love, on this side Heaven; so it is the chief part of the office of Faith, to see Gods Love and Goodness in the face of Christ: Let him not reveal his Love in vain, at so dear a rate, and in a way of such wonderful condescension: Think of his Goodness, as equal to his greatness: And as you see his greatness in the frame of the world; so his goodness in the wonderful work of mans Redemption and Salvation: Let Faith beholding God in Christ, and daily thus gazing on his goodness, or rather tasting it, and feasting on it, be the very summ of all your Religion and