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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.
Direct. 27. Strive with your hearts when the Spirit is striving with you: and take the season of its sp•cial help; and make one gale of grace advantageous to another.
Direct. 27. Strive with your hearts when the Spirit is striveing with you: and take the season of its sp•cial help; and make one gale of grace advantageous to another.
This is a great point of Christian wisdom: The help of the Spirit is not at our command: take it while you have it. Use wind and tide before they cease. God will not be a servant to our slothfulness and negligence. As he that will not come to the Church at the hour when the Minister of Christ is there, but say, I will come another time, will have none of his teaching there; so he that will not take the Spirits time, but say, I am not now at leisure, may be left without its help, and taught by sad experience to know, that it is fitter for man to wait on God, than for God to wait on man. More may be done and got at one hour, than at another, when we have no such help and motions.
Direct. 28. Be much in the contemplation of the heavenly Glory; for there are the highest objects, and the greatest demonstrations of Gods Love and Goodness; and therefore in such thoughts we are most likely to meet with the Spirit with whose nature and design they are so agreeable.