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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.
15. Yea this much more I would here inform you of, That Very many even of the stronger, holier, watchful, and obedient Christians, are yet uncertain of their Salvation, even then when they are Certain of their Justification and Sanctification; and that because they are uncertain of their perseverance and overcoming: For a mans Certainty of his Salvation can be no stronger than is his Certainty of enduring to the end and overcoming.
15. Yea this much more I would here inform you of, That Very many even of the stronger, holier, watchfull, and obedient Christians, are yet uncertain of their Salvation, even then when they are Certain of their Justification and Sanctification; and that because they are uncertain of their perseverance and overcoming: For a mans Certainty of his Salvation can be no stronger than is his Certainty of enduring to the end and overcoming.
That you may not misunderstand me in this, observe 1. That I do not say Perseverance is a thing uncertain in it self: 2. Nor that it is uncertain to all Christians: 3. But that it is uncertain to many even strong and self-knowing Christians. Divines use to distinguish of the Certainty of the Object, and of the Subject: and the former is either of the Object of Gods Knowledge, ⟨p. 161⟩or of mans. I doubt not but God knows Certainly who shall be saved, which with his Decree doth cause that which we call Certainty of the Object, as to mans understanding: But men themselves do not always know it.
THat you may not misunderstand me in this, observe 1. That I do not say Perseverance is a thing uncertain in it self: 2. Nor that it is uncertain to all Christians: 3. But that it is uncertain to many even strong and self-knowing Christians. Divines use to distinguish of the Certainty of the Object, and of the Subject: and the former is either of the Object of Gods Knowledge, ⟨p. 161⟩or of mans. I doubt not but God knows Certainly who shall be saved, which with his Decree doth cause that which we call Certainty of the Object, as to mans understanding: But men themselves do not alwaies know it.