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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.
5. And it will engage you in perverse disputes against that true faith which you understand not: And you will think, that you are contending for Free Grace, and for the Faith, when you are proud, knowing nothing, but sick or doting about questions, which engender no better birth than strifes, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings, &c. 1 Tim. 6.4, 5.
6. Lastly, You can scarce more dishonour the Christian Religion, nor injure God and our Mediator, or harden men in Infidelity, than by fathering your ill-shapen fictions on Christ, and calling them the Christian or Justifying Faith.
6. Lastly, You can scarce more dishonour the Christian Religion, nor injure God and our Mediatour, or harden men in Infidelity, than by fathering your ill-shapen fictions on Christ, and calling them the Christian or Justifying Faith.
Direct. 29. Take not all doubts and fears of your salvation, to be the proper effects and signs of unbelief: Seeing that in many they arise from the misunderstanding of the meaning of Gods Promise, and in more, from the doubtfulness of their own qualifications, rather than from any unbelief of the Promise, or distrust of Christ.