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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.
Pardon me that I sometime use the word VENTURING ALL, as if there were any uncertainty in the matter. I intend not by it to express the least uncertainty or fallibility in Gods Promise: For Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but one jot or tittle of his Word shall not pass, till all be fulfilled: But I shall here add,
Pardon me that I sometime use the word VENTVRING ALL, as if there were any uncertainty in the matter. I intend not by it to express the least uncertainty or fallibility in Gods Promise: For Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but one jot or tittle of his Word shall not pass, till all be fulfilled: But I shall here add,
1. True Faith or Trust may consist with uncertainty in the person who believeth; if he believe and trust Christ but so far, that he can cast away all his worldly treasures and hopes, even life it self upon that trust. Every one is not an Infidel, nor an Hypocrite, who must say▪ if he speak his heart [I am not certain past all doubts, that the soul is immortal, or the Gospel true: but I am certain, that immortal happiness is most desirable, and endless misery most terrible▪ and that this world is vanity, and nothing in it worthy to be compared, with the hopes which Christ hath given us of a better life: And therefore upon just deliberation I am resolved to let go all my sinful pleasures, profits, and worldly reputation, and life it self, when it is inconsistent with those hopes: And to take Gods Love for my felicity and end, and to trust and venture absolutely all my happiness and hopes on the favour of God, the mediation of Christ, and the Promises which he hath given us in the Gospel.]
I know I shall meet with abundance of Teachers and people, that will shake the head at this doctrine as dangerous, and cry out of it as favouring unbelief, that any one should have true saving Faith, who doubteth, or is uncertain of the immortality