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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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You are never the better beloved of God for being Rich, or honourable in the world, nor yet because you are poor, or in a mean condition, nor because you are sick or well, weak or strong▪ comely or uncomely; but because you Love him through his Son, and Believe in him whom the Father hath sent, John 16. 27. Without faith it is impossible to please God: Heb. 11. 6. The new man must be put on, which is renewed in knowledge, after the Image of him that created him, where there is neither Greek, ••r few. Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all and in all,] Col. 3. 10, 11. [For in Christ Jesus circumcision availeth nothing, nor uncircumcision, but a New Creature, and Faith that works by Love, and the keeping of the commands of God, Gal. 5. 6. & 6. 15. 1 Cor. 7. 19.
You are never the better beloved of God for being Rich, or honourable in the world, nor yet because you are poor, or in a mean condition, nor because you are sick or well, weak or strong▪ comely or uncomely; but because you Love him through his Son, and Believe in him whom the Father hath sent, John 16. 27. Without faith it is impossible to please God: Heb. 11. 6. The new man must be put on, which is renewed in knowledge, after the Image of him that created him, where there is neither Greek, ••r few. Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all and in all,] Col. 3. 10, 11. [For in Christ Jesus circumcision avail•th nothing, nor uncircumcision, but a New Creature, and Faith that works by Love, and the keeping of the commands of God,