A funeral-sermon for the reverend, holy and excellent divine, Mr. Richard Baxter who deceased…

A SERMON On the DEATH of Mr. Richard Baxter.

Luke 23.46. And when Jesus had cried with a loud Voice, he said, Father, into thy Hands I commend my Spirit.

THE Words are the Prayer of our Blessed Saviour in the Extremity of his Passion. His unrighteous and implacable Enemies had nailed his Body to the Cross, but they ⟨p. 2⟩had no power over his Spirit, that was ready to take its flight to the Sanctuary of Life and Immortality. This dying Prayer of Christ is a Pattern for sincere Christians: He has invested them with the Relation of Children of God; and authorises them by his Example, to commend their departing Spirits to his powerful Love. The Observation I shall unfold and apply, is this: 'Tis the Privilege of dying Saints, to commend their Spirits into the Hands of their Heavenly Father.

THE Words are the Prayer of our Blessed Saviour in the Extremity of his Passion. His unrighteous and implacable Enemies had nail'd his Body to the Cross, but they ⟨p. 2⟩had no power over his Spirit, that was ready to take its flight to the Sanctuary of Life and Immortality. This dying Prayer of Christ is a Pattern for sincere Christians: He has invested them with the Relation of Children of God; and authorises them by his Example, to commend their departing Spirits to his powerful Love. The Observation I shall unfold and apply, is this: 'Tis the Priviledg of dying Saints, to commend their Spirits into the Hands of their Heavenly Father.