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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.
8. This same Covenant which revealeth God as thus far reconciled by Christ, doth offer him to be further actually and fully reconciled, and to justify and glorify us, that is, to forgive, accept, and love us perfectly for ever. And it offereth us Christ to be our actual Head and Mediator, to procure and give us all this mercy, by communicating the benefits which he hath purchased according to his Covenant-terms: so that as before the Father and the Son were revealed to our assent together; so here they are offered to the Will together.
8. This same Covenant which revealeth God as thus far reconciled by Christ, doth offer him to be further actualy and fully reconciled, and to justifie and glorifie us, that is, to forgive, accept, and love us perfectly for ever. And it offereth us Christ to be our actual Head and Mediatour, to procure and give us all this mercy, by communicating the benefits which he hath purchased according to his Covenant-terms: so that as before the Father and the Son were revealed to our assent together; so here they are offered to the Will together.
9. In this offer, God is offered as the End, and Christ as Mediator is offered as the Means; therefore the act of the Will to God, which is here required, is simple Love of complacency (with subjection, which is a consent to obey) but the act of the Will to Christ, is called choice or consent, though there be in it Amor Medii, the Love of that Means for its aptitude as to the end.
9. In this offer, God is offered as the End, and Christ as Mediatour is offered as the Means; therefore the act of the Will to God, which is here required, is simple Love of complacency (with subjection, which is a consent to obey) but the act of the Will to Christ, is called choice or consent, though there be in it Amor Medii, the Love of that Means for its aptitude as to the end.