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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 5: Directions how to live by Faith upon Gods Promises.
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.
But yet if indeed God bring to your minds any pertinent promise, I would not have you to neglect the comfort of it.
Direct. 12. Think not that God hath promised to all Christians the same degrees of grace; and therefore that you may expect as much as any others have.
D•rect. 12. Think not that God hath promised to all Christians the same degrees of grace; and therefore that you may expect as much as any others have.
Object. But shall not all at last be perfect? and what can there be added to perfection?
Answ. The perfection of a creature is to be advanced to the highest degree, which his own specific and individual nature are capable of: A beast may be perfect, and yet not be a man: and a man may be perfect, and yet not be an Angel. And Lazarus may be perfect, and yet not reach the degree of Abraham. For there is, no doubt, a gradual difference between the capacities of several individual souls, of the same species: As there is of several vessels of the same metal, though not by such difference of corporal extension. And there is no great probability that all the difference in the degrees of wit from the Idiot to Ahithophel, is founded only in the bodily organs; and not at all in the souls. And it is certain, that there are