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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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§ 6. And as for the loss of Sermons, Books, and other means, surely it is no loss to cease the means when we have attained the end: Cannot we spare our Winter Clothes as troublesome in the heat of Summer, and sit by the hot Fire without our Glores. Cannot we sit at home without a Horse or Coach? Or set them by at our Journeys end? Cannot we lie in Bed without Boots and Spurs? Is it grievous to us to cease our Physic when we are well: Even here, he is happier that hath least of the Creature, and needeth least, than he that hath much and needeth much: Because all Creature commodities and helps have also their discommodities and troublesomness: And the very applying and using so many remedies of our want; is tedious of itself. And as God only needeth nothing, but is self-sufficient, and therefore only perfectly and essentially happy, so those are likest God that need least from without, and have the greatest plenitude of internal goodness. What ⟨p. 95⟩need we to preach, hear, read, pray, to bring us to Heaven when we are there?
§ 6. And as for the loss of Sermons, Books, and other means, surely it is no loss to cease the means when we have attained the end: Cannot we spare our Winter Clothes as troublesom in the heat of Summer, and sit by the hot Fire without our Glores. Cannot we sit at home without a Horse or Coach? Or set them by at our Journeys end? Cannot we lie in Bed without Boots and Spurs? Is it grievous to us to cease our Physick when we are well: Even here, he is happier that hath least of the Creature, and needeth least, than he that hath much and needeth much: Because all Creature commodities and helps have also their discommodities and troublesomness: And the very applying and using so many remedies of our want; is tedious of itself. And as God only needeth nothing, but is self-sufficient, and therefore only perfectly and essentially happy, so those are likest God that need least from without, and have the greatest plenitude of internal goodness. What ⟨p. 95⟩need we to preach, hear, read, pray, to bring us to Heaven when we are there?