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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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5. The Trust and repose of the soul on God, which is another part of the life of grace, is exceeding Pleasant and quieting to the soul. To find that we stand upon a Rock, and that under us ⟨p. 280⟩are the everlasting arms, and that we have so full security for our salvation, as the promise and Oath of the immutable God, what a stay, what a Pleasure is this to the Believer? The troubles of the godly are most from the remnants of their unbelief: The more they believe, the more they are comforted and established: The life of faith is a Pleasant life. Faith could not conquer so many enemies, and carry us through so much suffering and distress, as you find in that cloud of testimonies, Heb. 11. if it were not a very comfortable work. Even we that see not the salvation ready to be revealed, may yet greatly rejoice, for all the manifold temptations, that for a season make us subject to some heaviness, 1 Pet. 1. 5, 6. And we that see not Jesus Christ, yet Believing can love him and rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, v. 8. The God of Hope doth sometimes fill his servants with all Joy and peace in believing, and makes them even abound in Hope through the Power of the Holy Ghost, Rom. 15. 13.
5. The Trust and repose of the soul on God, which is another part of the life of grace, is exceeding Pleasant and quieting to the soul. To find that we stand upon a Rock, and that under us ⟨p. 280⟩are the everlasting arms, and that we have so full security for our salvation, as the promise and Oath of the immutable God, what a stay, what a Pleasure is this to the Believer? The troubles of the godly are most from the remnants of their unbelief: The more they believe, the more they are comforted and established: The life of faith is a Pleasant life. Faith could not conquer so many enemies, and carry us through so much suffering and distress, as you find in that cloud of testimonies, Heb. 11. if it were not a very comfortable work. Even we that see not the salvation ready to be revealed, may yet greatly rejoyce, for all the manifold temptations, that for a season make us subject to some heavyness,