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

§ 12. Therefore when we dispute against them that hold Transubstantiation, and the ubiquity of Christ's Body, we do assuredly conclude that Sense is Judge, whether there be real Bread and Wine present, or not: But it is no Judge, whether Christ's Spiritual Body be present or not, no more than whether an Angel be present: And ⟨p. 70⟩we conclude that Christ's Body is not Infinite or Immense as is his Godhead; but what are its dimensions, Limits or extent, and where it is absent, far be it from us to determine, when we cannot tell how far the Sun extendeth its secondary substance, or emanant Beams; nor well what Locality is as to Christ's Soul or any Spirit, if to a Spiritual Body.

§ 13. Their fear is vain and carnal, who are afraid lest their Union with Christ or one another will be too near; even lest thereby they lose their individuation, as Rivers that fall into the Sea, or extinguished Candles whose Fire is after but a Sun-beam, or part of the common Element of Fire in the Air; or as the Vegetative Spirits which in Autumn, retire from the Leaves into the Branches and Trunk of the Tree: I have proved before, that our Individuation or numerical Existence ceaseth not: And that no Union is to be feared, were it never so sure, which destroyeth not the Being, or formal Powers or Action of the Soul; and that it is the great radical disease of SELFISHNESS and want of Holy LOVE to God and our Saviour, and one another, which causeth these unreasonable Fears; Even that Selfishness which now maketh men so partially desirous of their own wills and pleasure in comparison of God's, and their own Felicity in comparison of other, and which maketh them so easily bear God's injuries, and the Sufferings of a Thousand others, in comparison of their own. But he that put a great desire of the Bodies preservation into the Soul while it is its form, will abate that desire when the time of separation is come, because there is then no use for it till the Resurrection: Else it would be a torment to the Soul.