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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 3 › Chapter 3: Directions to live by Faith on the Holy Ghost.
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. Therefore executive pardon or justification cannot possibly be any perfecter than sanctification is: Because no sin is further ⟨p. 208⟩forgiven, or the person justified executively, than the punishment is taken off: and the privation of the Spirit, being the great punishment, the giving of it, is the great executive remission in this life.
But of this more in the Chapter of Justification following.
Direct. 8. The three great operations in m•n, which each of the three persons in the Trinity eminently perform, are, Natura, Medicina, salus; the first by the Creator, the second by the Redeemer, the third by the Sanctifier.
Commonly it is called Nature, Grace and Glory: But either the terms [Grace and Glory] must be plainlier expounded, or that distribution is not sound: If by Grace be meant all the extrinsic medicinal preparations made by Christ; and if by [Glory] be meant only the Holiness of the soul, the sense is good: But in common use those words are otherwise understood. Sanctification is usually ascribed to the Holy Ghost: but Glorification in Heaven, is the perfective effect of all the three persons in our state of perfect union with God,