A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

Name: A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
Author: Richard Baxter

A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662

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Part 2 › Chapter 3: Full proof (in twenty Queries) from Reason it self that there is a Life to come, and H…Part 2 › Chapter 3: Full proof (in twentie Queries) from Reason it self that there is a Life to come, and H…

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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.

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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.

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 sanctifie: But the Word doth sanctifie: therefore the Word is Truth.

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Indeed the Holy Church of Christ throughout all ages of the world, hath been his living Image, and so a living Witness of his Word, as showing by their lives the transcript of it in their hearts. It is easy for any that know them, except the maliciously blind, to perceive that the true servants of Christ are a more purified, refined, honest, conscionable, holy, heavenly people then the rest of the world. For my part, I am fully convinced of it; I see it; there is no comparison: for all their imperfections which they and I lament, I am fully satisfied that there is much more of God on them then on others. And therefore there is much more of God in the Doctrine that renewed them, then in any other: The Church is the living Scripture, the pillar and ground of the truth,

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