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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.
So that no man can be a Christian indeed, without these three: 1. The objective witness of the Spirit to the truth of Christ. 2. The Gospel taught by the Spirit in the Apostles. 3. And the quickening, illuminating and sanctifying work of the Spirit upon their souls.
Direct. 17. It is therefore in these respects that we are baptized into the Name of the Holy Ghost, as well as of the Father and the Son, it being his work to make us thus both Believers and Saints; and his perfective work of our real Sanctification, being as necessary to us as our Redemption or Creation, Matth. 28.19, 2•. Heb. 6.1, 2, 4, 5, 6.
Direct. 17. It is therefore in these respects that we are baptiz•d into the Name of the Holy Ghost, as well as of the Father and the Son, it being his work to make us thus both Believers and Saints; and his perfective work of our real Sanctification, being as necessary to us as our Redemption or Creation, Matth. 28.19, 2•. Heb. 6.1, 2, 4, 5, 6.
Direct. 18. Therefore as every Christian must look upon himself, ⟨p. 225⟩as being in special Covenant with the Holy Ghost, so be must understand distinctly what are the benefits, and what are the conditions, and what are the duties of that part of his Covenant.