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Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…
Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and the latter times of his corporal pains and weakness.
London: printed by Tho. Snowden for B. Simmons, 1683
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Alas, my Soul, thou feelest thy defect, and knowest the hinderance, but what hope is there of remedy? Will God ever raise so low, so dull, so guilty a Heart, to such a foretaste of Glory, as is this effusion of his Love by the Holy Ghost? The lightsome Days in Spring and Summer when the Sun reviveth the late naked Earth, and clothes it with delectable beauties differs not more from Night and Winter, than a Soul thus revived with the Love of God, doth differ from an unbelieving formal Soul.
Alas, my Soul, thou feelest thy defect, and knowest the hinderance, but what hope is there of remedy? Will God ever raise so low, so dull, so guilty a Heart, to such a foretast of Glory, as is this effusion of his Love by the Holy Ghost? The lightsom Daies in Spring and Summer when the Sun reviveth the late naked Earth, and clothes it with delectable beauties differs not more from Night and Winter, than a Soul thus revived with the Love of God, doth differ from an unbelieving formal Soul.
Though this great change be above my power, the Spirit of God is not impotent, backward, barren or inexorable. He hath appointed us means for so high a state; and he appointeth no means in vain. Were my own Heart obedient to my commands, all these following I would lay upon it: Yea I'll do it and beg the help of God.
Though this great change be above my power, the Spirit of God is not impotent, backward, barren or inex••able. He hath appointed us means for so high a state; and he appointeth no means in vain. Were my own Heart obedient to my commands, all these following I would lay upon it: Yea I'll do it and beg the help of God.
I. I charge thee think not of God's Goodness and Love as unproportionable to his Greatness and his Knowledge: Nor overlook in the whole frame of Heaven and Earth, the manifestation of one any more than of the other.