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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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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.
III. I charge thee to make the study of Christ, and the great work of Man's Redemption by him, thy chiefest Learning, and most serious and constant work; and in that wonderful Glass to see the Face of Divine Love; and to hear what is said of it by the Son from Heaven; and to come boldly as reconciled to God by him.
IV. O see that thy repentance for former sins against knowledge, and Conscience, and the Motions of God's Spirit, be sound and throughly lamented and abhorred, how small soever the matter was in itself That so the doubt of thy sincerity keep not up doubts of God's acceptance.