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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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3. Moreover, God hath so contrived the way of their salvation, that they shall have all by a Redeemer, and by freest Grace, and none shall be justified by the works of the Law, nor by any merit of his own; but Boasting is excluded by the Law of faith, Rom. 3. 19, 27, 28. and we shall have nothing but what we receive besides and contrary to our desert.
4. And alas too much corruption still remaineth in us: We have flesh that fighteth against the spirit, Rom. 7. 24. Gal. 5. 17. We know but in part, and Love God but in part, and serve him with such constant weakness, that these things are usually such humbling matters to a gracious soul, that were it not for the Comforter, they would be unable to look up. O to feel how dark we are! how far from God! how strange to heaven! how little we believe, and know, and love! these are humbling thought indeed to a soul that is acquainted with it self […] ••verty, beggary, or the reproach in the world, would be so humbling to them. To find such remnants of that odious sin, that cost them dear, and had cost them dearer, if it had not cost their Lord so dear, this is constant matter of humiliation.
4. And alas too much corruption still remaineth in us: We have flesh that fighteth against the spirit, Rom. 7. 24. Gal. 5. 17. We know but in part, and Love God but in part, and serve him with such constant weakness, that these things are usually such humbling matters to a gracious soul, that were it not for the Comforter, they would be unable to look up. O to feel how dark we are! how far from God! how strange to heaven! how little we believe, and know, and love! these are humbling thought indeed to a soul that is acquainted withit self verty, beggery, or the reproach in the world, would be so humbling to them. To find such remnants of that odious sin, that cost them dear, and had cost them dearer, if it had not cost their Lord so dear, this is constant matter of humiliation.