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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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Quest. 7. Do you exercise faith, as well as feeling, in judging of the benefit of Sacraments? Pardon, and Justification, and Title to Salvation are benefits which in themselves you cannot feel. It is by Believing the promise that you must know them. If God have promised a blessing on his Ordinance, it is sure to the faithful soul as if we felt it, though perhaps we may seem long without it. Heaven it self which is the principal end of Ordinances, will not be attained in this life: and yet the Ordinance is not in vain.
Quest. 7. Do you exercise faith, as well as feeling, in judging of the benefit of Sacraments? Pardon, and Justification, and Title to Salvation are benefits which in themselves you cannot feel. It is by Believing the promise that you must know them. If God have promised a blessing on his Ordinance, it is sure to the faithful soul as if we felt it, though perhaps we may seem long without it. Heaven it self which is the principal end of Ordinances, will not be attained in this life: and yet the Ordinace is not in vain.
Quest. 8. Have you the true understanding of the use of Sacraments? of the abundant Love that is here set forth? and the freeness and fullness of the Promise here sealed? If not, no wonder if you taste not the sweetness, when you know not how to break the shell, that you may feed on the kernel of the Ordinances.
Quest. 8. Have you the true understanding of the use of Sacraments? of the abundant Love that is here set forth? and the freeness and fulness of the Promise here sealed? If not, no wonder if you taste not the sweetness, when you know not how to break the shell, that you may feed on the kernel of the Ordinances.
Quest. 9. Have you not troubled your own souls, and muddied your comforts by causeless doubts and ignorant scruples, about the gestures, or manner, or persons that you joined with, or some such circumstances as these? If so, no marvel if you lose the comfort.