Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…

12. And if the disobedient Spirits be in Prison, and the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, suffer the vengeance of eternal Fire, 1 Pet. 3. 19. Jude 7. then the Just have eternal Life. (And if the Jews had not thought the Soul immortal Saul had not desired the Witch to call up Samuel to speak with him:) The rest I now pass by. We have many great, and precious promises on which a departed Soul may trust.

13. And Luk. 16. 9. Christ expressly saith, that when we fail, (that is, must leave this World) we shall be received into the Everlasting habitations.

13. And Luk. 16. 9. Christ expresly saith, that when we fail, (that is, must leave this World) we shall be received into the Everlasting habitations.

§ 1. VII. And it is not nothing to encourage us to hope in him that hath made all these Promises, when we find how he heareth Prayers in this life, and thereby assureth his Servants that he is their true and faithful Saviour. We are apt in our distress to cry loud for Mercy and deliverances; and when humane help faileth to promise God, that if he now will save us, we will thankfully acknowledge it his work; and yet when we are delivered, to return not only to security, but to ingratitude; and think that our deliverance came but in the course of common Providence, and not indeed as an answer to our Prayers. And therefore God in Mercy reneweth both our distresses and our deliverances, that what once or twice will not convince us of, many and great deliverances may. This is my own case. O how oft have I cried to him when men and means were nothing, and when no help in second Causes did appear, and how oft and suddenly and mercifully hath he delivered me? What sudden ease, what removal of long afflictions have I had! such extraordinary changes, and beyond my own and others expectations,