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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.
2. I here told you also, that you must not look to be above all apprehension of danger of your miscarrying. The grounds of this are these: 1. Because, as is said, our miscarrying remaineth still Possible. 2. Because the perfect certain knowledge of our Election, and that we shall not fall away, is proper to God only: We have our selves but a Defective, interrupted Assurance of it. 3. The Covenant gives us salvation but on condition of our perseverance, and perseverance on condition that we quench not the Spirit: which we shall do, if we lose the apprehension of our danger. 4. Accordingly there is a connection in our Assurance, between all the several causes of our Salvation, and necessaries thereto; whereof the apprehension of danger is one. We are sure we shall be saved, if we be sure to Persevere: else not. We are sure to Persevere, if we be sure faithfully to resist Temptations. We can be no surer of ⟨p. 215⟩faithful resisting of Temptations, then we are sure to be kept in an apprehension of our danger.
2. I here told you also, that you must not look to be above all apprehension of danger of your miscarrying. The grounds of this are these: 1. Because, as is said, our miscarrying remaineth still Possible. 2. Because the perfect certain knowledge of our Election, and that we shall not fall away, is proper to God only: We have our selves but a Defective, interrupted Assurance of it. 3. The Covenant gives us salvation but on condition of our perseverance, and perseverance on condition that we quench not the Spirit: which we shall do, if we lose the apprehension of our danger. 4. Accordingly there is a connexion in our Assurance, between all the several causes of our Salvation, and necessaries thereto; whereof the apprehension of danger is one. We are sure we shall be saved, if we be sure to Persevere: else not. We are sure to Persevere, if we be sure faithfully to resist Temptations. We can be no surer of ⟨p. 215⟩faithfull resisting of Temptations, then we are sure to be kept in an apprehension of our danger.