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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 4: Directions how to exercise Faith upon Gods Commandments, for Duty.
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.
2. But all the Acts of the Apostles which were either about indifferent things, or which were about forecommanded duties, and not in the execution of the foresaid Commission, for which ⟨p. 240⟩they had the promise of infallibility, have no such force or interpretation. For 1. Their holy actions of obedience to former Laws, are not properly Laws to us, but motives to obey Gods Laws: And this is the common use of all other good examples of the Saints in Scripture: Their examples are to be tried by the Law, and followed as secondary copies or motives, and not as the Law it self, 1 Cor. 11.1. Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. Heb. 6.12. Be followers of them, who through faith and patience do inherit the promise. 1 Cor. 4.16. Phil. 3.17. 1 Thes. 1.6. & 2.16. & 3.7, 9. Heb. 13.7.
2. But all the Acts of the Apostles which were either about indifferent things, or which were about forecommanded duties, and not in the execution of the foresaid Commission, for which ⟨p. 240⟩they had the promise of infallibility, have no such force or interpretation. For 1. Their holy actions of obedience to former Laws, are not properly Laws to us, but motives to obey Gods Laws: And this is the common use of all other good examples of the Saints in Scripture: Their examples are to be tryed by the Law, and followed as secondary copies or motives, and not as the Law it self,