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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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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.
II. Therefore let not the the wickedness and misery of the World tempt thee to think basely of all God's ⟨p. 375⟩Mercies to the World; nor the peculiar privileges of the Churches, draw thee to deny or contemn God's common Mercies unto all.
II. Therefore let not the the wickedness and misery of the World tempt thee to think basely of all God's ⟨p. 375⟩Mercies to the World; nor the peculiar priviledges of the Churches, draw thee to deny or contemn God's common Mercies unto all.