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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.
And yet I must tell all these persons, that all this while it is ten to one, but there is really a great deal of unbelief in them which they know not: and that their belief of the truth of the immortality of the soul, and the life to come, and of the Gospel it self, is not so strong and firm, as their never-doubting of it would intimate, or as some of their definitions of Faith, and their Book-opinions and Disputes import. And it had been well for some of them, that ⟨p. 273⟩they had doubted more, that they might have believed, and been settled better.
Direct. 30. Think often of the excellencies of the life of faith, that the Motives may be still inducing you thereto.
As 1. It is but reasonable that God should be trusted; or else indeed we deny him to be God, Psal. 20 7.
2. What else shall we trust to? shall we deify creatures, and say to a stock, Thou art my Father?