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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.
A grat part of our duty towards the Holy Ghost, doth consist in this joining with him, and obeying him in his strivings against the flesh: And therefore it is that so many and earnest exhortations are used with us, to live after the Spirit, and not after the flesh; and to mortify the lusts of the flesh, and the deeds of it by the Spirit; especially in Rom. 8.1. to the 16. and in Gal. 5. throughout. & Rom. 6. & 7. & Col. 3. Ephes. 5.
A grat part of our duty towards the Holy Ghost, doth consist in this joyning with him, and obeying him in his strivings against the flesh: And therefore it is that so many and earnest exhortations are used with us, to live after the Spirit, and not after the flesh; and to mortifie the lusts of the flesh, and the deeds of it by the Spirit; especially in Rom. 8.1. to the 16. and in Gal. 5. throughout. & Rom. 6. & 7. & Col. 3. Ephes. 5.
Direct. 26. Take not every striving for a victory, n•r every desire of grace, to be true grace it self; unless grace be desired as it is the lovely Image of God, and pleasing to him, and be desired before all earthly things; and unless you not only strive against, but conquer the predominant love of every sin.