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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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Perhaps you will say, that you see no such change made by the Word, nor any such spirit given by it unto men, but only the effects of their own Imaginations. But, 1. The Question is, Whether they are True or false Imaginations? Gods truth causeth that Impress on the mind of man, which you call his Imaginations: For where should Truth be received, but in the mind? and how should it work, but by cogitation? They are cogitations above and contrary to those of flesh and blood, that are wrought by this holy Doctrine. It is nevertheless of the spirit, because it moveth man by consideration.
Perhaps you will say, that you see no such change made by the Word, nor any such spirit given by it unto men, but only the effects of their own Imaginations. But, 1. The Question is, Whether they are True or false Imaginations? Gods truth causeth that Impress on the mind of man, which you call his Imaginations: For where should Truth be received, but in the mind? and how should it work, but by cogitation? They are cogitations above and contrary to those of flesh and blood, that are wrought by this holy Doctrine. It is nevertheless os the spirit, because it moveth man by consideration.
2. And if you see not a work on the hearts of the regenerate appearing in their lives, which raiseth them to a far better state then others, it can be no better then strangeness or malice that can so far blind you.
3. But if it be so with you, give leave yet to the persons that know this holy change in themselves, to believe the more confidently the Word that wrought it. We know that we are renewed and passed from our former spiritual death to life: and therefore that it was the Truth of God that did the Work of God upon us. Nothing but Truth can sanctify: But the Word doth sanctify: therefore the Word is Truth.