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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. 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.
Quest. 9. Have you not troubled your own souls, and muddyed your comforts by causeless doubts and ignorant scruples, about the gestures, or manner, or persons that you joyned with, or some such circumstances as these? If so, no marvel if you lose the comfort.
Quest. 10. Or at least, have you not been negligent in the review and after improving of the Ordinances? and have you not thought that all was done when you had received? Any one of these miscarriages may make this pleasant duty bitter, or at least deprive you of the most of the delight. But if your hearts be suited to the work, and you deprive not your selves of the offered consolation, you shall find that God deals bountifully, with you, and will feast you even with Angels food.
Quest. 10. Or at least, have you not been negligent in the review and after improving of the Ordinances? and have you not thought that all was done when you had received? Any one of these miscarriages may make this pleasant duty bitter, or at least deprive you of the most of the delight. But if your hearts be suted to the work, and you deprive not your selves of the offered consolation, you shall find that God deals bountifully, with you, and will feast you even with Angels food.