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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The exercise of Three sorts of LOVE, to God, to Others, and to my Self, afford me a Threefold satisfaction (conjunct) to be willing to depart.
THe exercise of Three sorts of LOVE, to God, to Others, and to my Self, afford me a Threefold satisfaction (conjunct) to be vvilling to depart.
I. I am sure my departure vvill be the fulfilling of that Will which is Love it self, which I am bou•d above all things to Love, and Please, and wh••• is the beginning, rule, and end of all: Antonine •ould hence fetch good Thoughts of Death.
I. I am sure my departure vvill be the fulfilling of that Will vvhich is Love it self, vvhich I am bou•d above all things to Love, and Please, and vvh••• is the beginning, rule, and end of all: Antonine •ould hence fetch good Thoughts of Death.
II. The World dieth not with me when I die; nor the Church, nor the Praise and Glory of God which he vvill have in and from this World unto the end: And if I love others as my self, their Lives and Comforts vvill now be to my Thoughts, as if I were to live my self in them. God vvill be praised, and honoured by Posterity, when I am dead and gone. Were I to be annihilated this would comfort me now, if I lived and died in perfect Love.