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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.
2. What else shall we trust to? shall we deify creatures, and say to a stock, Thou art my Father? Jer. 2.27. Lam. 1.19. Shall we distrust God, and trust a liar and a worm?
2. What else shall we trust to? shall we deifie creatures, and say to a stock, Thou art my Father? Jer. 2.27. Lam. 1.19. Shall we distrust God, and trust a lyar and a worm?
3. Trying times will shortly come; and then woe to the soul that cannot trust in God! Then nothing else will serve our turns. Then cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and withdraweth his heart from the Lord, he shall be like the barren wilderness, &c. Then none that trusted in him shall be ashamed, Jer. 17.5, 6. Psal. 25.3, 4. Psal. 73.26, 27, 28.
4. Gods All-sufficiency leaveth no reason for the least distrust: There is the most absolute certainty that God cannot fail us, because his veracity is grounded on his essential perfections.