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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.
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2. In this belief or knowledge of God, is contained the knowledge of his Essential Power, Wisdom and Goodness; and that he is our Creator and Governor, and that we have broken his Laws, and that we are obnoxious to his Justice, and deserve punishment for our sins. All this is to be known before we believe in Christ as the Mediator.
2. In this belief or knowledge of God, is contained the knowledge of his Essential Power, Wisdom and Goodness; and that he is our Creator and Governour, and that we have broken his Laws, and that we are obnoxious to his Justice, and deserve punishment for our sins. All this is to be known before we believe in Christ as the Mediatour.
3. Yet where Christianity is the Religion of the Country, it is Christ himself by his Word and Ministers, who teacheth us these things concerning God; But it is not Christ as a Means chosen or used by us, to bring us to the Love of God; (for no man can choose or use a Means for an End not yet known or intended:) but it is Christ as a Means chosen and used by God, to bring home sinners to himself: (even as his dying for us on the Cross was.)
3. Yet where Christianity is the Religion of the Country, it is Christ himself by his Word and Ministers, who teacheth us these things concerning God; But it is not Christ as a Means chosen or used by us, to bring us to the Love of God; (for no man can chuse or use a Means for an End not yet known or intended:) but it is Christ as a Means chosen and used by God, to bring home sinners to himself: (even as his dying for us on the Cross was.)
4. The soul that knoweth all this concerning God, cannot yet love him savingly, both because he wanteth the Spirit to effect it, and because a holy sin-hating God, engaged in Justice