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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.
If you were going to Sea, and had several Ships and Pilots offered you, and you were afraid left one were unsafe, and the Pilot unskilful, and it were doubtful which were to be trusted; when after all deliberation you choose one, and refuse the rest, and resolve to venture your life and goods in it, this is properly ⟨p. 257⟩called trusting it. So trusting in God, and in Jesus Christ, is not a bare opinion of his fidelity, but a PRACTICAL TRUST ▪ and that you may be sure to understand it clearly, I will once open the parts of it distinctly.
If you were going to Sea, and had several Ships and Pilots offered you, and you were afraid left one were unsafe, and the Pilot unskilful, and it were doubtful which were to be trufled; when after all deliberation you chuse one, and refuse the rest, and resolve to venture your life and goods in it, this is properly ⟨p. 257⟩called trusting it. So trusting in God, and in Jesus Christ, is not a bare opinion of his fidelity, but a PRACTICAL TRƲST ▪ and that you may be sure to understand it clearly, I will once open the parts of it distinctly.
Divines commonly tell us that Faith is an Affiance or Trust in God: and some of them say that this is an act of the understanding, and some, that it is an act of the will, and others say, that Faith consisteth in Assent alone, and that Trust or Affiance is as Hope, a fruit of Faith, and not Faith it self: And what Affiance it self is, is no small controversy (And so it is what Faith and Christianity is, even among the Teachers of Christians.)
Divines commonly tell us that Faith is an Affiance or Trust in God: and some of them say that this is an act of the understanding, and some, that it is an act of the will, and others say, that Faith consisteth in Assent alone, and that Trust or Affiance is as Hope, a fruit of Faith, and not Faith it self: And what Affiance it self is, is no small controversie (And so it is what Faith and Christianity is, even among the Teachers of Christians.)