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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.
Direct. 13. Much less hath God promised the same degree of common gifts to all.
If you never attain to the same measure of acuteness, learning, memory, utterance, do not think that God breaketh promise with you: Nor do not call your presumption by the name of Faith, if you have such expectations. See 1 Cor. 12. throughout.
Direct. 14. God often promiseth the thing it self, when he promiseth the time of giving it: Therefore do not take it to be an act of Faith, to believe a set time, where God hath set no time at all.
Many are the troubles of the righteous, but God will deliver them out of all, Psal. 37. But he hath not set them just the time. Christ hath promised to come again and take us to himself, Joh. 14.1, 2.3. But of that day and hour knoweth no man. God will give necessary comfort to his servants; but he best knoweth when it is necessary: and therefore they must not set him a time, and say, Let it be now, or thou breakest thy