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The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32…
The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32 directions : written for the use of a troubled friend / and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Underhil, 1653
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.
4. And on the other extreme, do not run to Marks unseasonably, but in the order here laid down.
4. And on the other extream, do not run to Marks unseasonably, but in the order here laid down.
5. Nor do not trust to unsafe Marks.
6. And therefore do not look at too many; for the true ones, are but few. I do but name these things to you, because I have fuller handled them in my book of Rest, whether I must refer you. And so I return to the third Caution.
6. And therefore do not look at too many; for the true ones, are but few. I do but name these things to you, because I have fullyer handled them in my book of Rest, whether I must refer you. And so I return to the third Caution.
I have in the forementioned Book told you, what the Office of the Spirit is in Assuring us, and what the use of Marks are. The Spirit witnesseth first Objectively, and so the Spirit and Marks are all one. For it is the Spirit dwelling in us that is the witness or proof that we are Gods sons: for he that hath not his Spirit is none of his: and the Spirit is not discerned by us in its essence, but in its workings: and therefore, to discern these workings is to discern the Spirit: and these workings are the Marks that we speak of: so that the Spirit witnesseth our sonship, as a reasonable soul witnesseth that you are a man and not a beast. You find by the Acts of Reason that you have a Reasonable soul, and then you know that having a Reasonable soul, you are certainly a man: So you find by the works or fruits of the Spirit, that you have the Spirit, (that is, by Marks: and Paul enumerates the fruits of the Spirit to that end) and then by finding that you have the Spirit, you may certainly know that you are