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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
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.
As I have before said, Christ will own no others, Rom. 8. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 2 Cor. 5.17. Luk. 14.26.33. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, the same is none of his. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new. He that forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be my disciple. Gal. 5.24. They that are Christs, have crucified the flesh, with its affections and lusts. Indeed the Church visible, which is but the congregate Societies of professed Christians, hath many in it, that have none of this Spirit or grace; but such are only Christians equivocally, and not in the primary proper sense: 1 Joh. 5.7, 8, 9, 10. There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the holy Ghost; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood; and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself: He that believeth not God, hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
§. 108. The more any one is a Christian in degree, the more he hath of this witness of the sanctifying Spirit in himself, and the holier he is.