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

§ 13. Willingly Depart O lingering Soul! It is from a Sodom, though in it there be righteous Lots, who yet are not without their woeful blemishes! Hast thou so oft groaned for the general blindness and wickedness of the World, and art thou loth to leave it for a better? How oft wouldst thou have rejoiced to have seen but the dawning of a Day of Universal Peace and Reformation? And wouldst thou not see it, where it shineth forth in fullest Glory? Would a light at Midnight have pleased thee so well: Hast thou prayed and laboured for it so hard? And would thou not see the Sun? Will the things of Heaven please thee no where but on Earth, where they come in the least and weakest influences, and are terminated in gross, terrene, obscure, and unkind recipients? Away, away, the vindictive Flames are ready to consume this sinful World? Sinners that blindly rage in sin, must quickly rage in the effects of ⟨p. 118⟩sin, and of God's Justice: The pangs of Lust, prepared for these pangs! They are treasuring up wrath against this Day: Look not then behind thee: Away from this unhappy World! Press on unto the Mark, Phil. 3. Looking towards, and hastening to the coming of the Day of God, 2 Pet. 3. 10, 11, 12.

§ 13. Willingly Depart O lingring Soul! It is from a Sodom, though in it there be righteous Lots, who yet are not without their woful blemishes! Hast thou so oft groaned for the general blindness and wickedness of the World, and art thou loth to leave it for a better? How oft wouldst thou have rejoyced to have seen but the dawning of a Day of Universal Peace and Reformation? And wouldst thou not see it, where it shineth forth in fullest Glory? Would a light at Midnight have pleased thee so well: Hast thou prayed and laboured for it so hard? And would thou not see the Sun? Will the things of Heaven please thee no where but on Earth, where they come in the least and weakest influences, and are terminated in gross, terrene, obscure, and unkind recipients? Away, away, the vindictive Flames are ready to consume this sinful World? Sinners that blindly rage in sin, must quickly rage in the effects of ⟨p. 118⟩sin, and of God's Justice: The pangs of Lust, prepared for these pangs! They are treasuring up wrath against this Day: Look not then behind thee: Away from this unhappy World! Press on unto the Mark,