A26951:72
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.
He can see Christ in his poor despised members, and love God in those that are made as the scorn and off-scou•ing of all things, by the malignant unbelieving world. He admireth the excellency and happiness of those, that are made the laughing-stock of the ungodly: and accounteth the Saints the most excellent on earth, Psal. 16.2. and had rather be one of their communion in rags, than sit with Princes that are naked within, and void of the true and durable glory. He judgeth of men as he perceiveth them to have more or less of Christ. The worth of a man is not obvious to the sense. You see his stature, complexion and his cloths; but as you see not his learning or skill in any Art whatsoever, so you see not his grace and heavenly mind. As the soul it self, so the sinful deformity, and the holy beauty of it, are to us invisible, and perceived only by their fruits, and by the eye of faith, which seeth things as God reveals them. And therefore in the eyes of a true Believer, a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth those that fear the Lord, Psal. 15.4.
He can see Christ in his poor despised members, and love God in those that are made as the scorn and off-scou•ing of all things, by the malignant unbelieving world. He admireth the excellency and happiness of those, that are made the laughing-stock of the ungodly: and accounteth the Saints the most excellent on earth, Psal. 16.2. and had rather be one of their communion in raggs, than sit with Princes that are naked within, and void of the true and durable glory. He judgeth of men as he perceiveth them to have more or less of Christ. The worth of a man is not obvious to the sense. You see his stature, complexion and his cloths; but as you see not his learning or skill in any Art whatsoever, so you see not his grace and heavenly mind. As the soul it self, so the sinful deformity, and the holy beauty of it, are to us invisible, and perceived only by their fruits, and by the eye of faith, which seeth things as God reveals them. And therefore in the eyes of a true Believer, a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth those that fear the Lord, Psal. 15.4