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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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Richard Baxter's Dying Thoughts. › Part 2: II. The Final Reasons.
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Will he be lother to lose me than I am to lose a Member or to die? Will he not take incomparably greater pleasure in animating and actuating me for ever, than my Soul doth in animating and actuating this Body? O then let me long to be with him? And though I am naturally loth to be absent from the Body, let me be by his Spirit more unwilling to be absent from the Lord? And though I would not be unclothed had not sin made it necessary, let me groan to be clothed upon with my heavenly Habitation, and to become the delight of my Redeemer, and to be perfectly loved, by Love itself.
§ 10. And even this blessed Receptivity of my Soul, in terminating the Love and Delight of my glorified Head, must needs be a felicity to me! The insensible Creatures are but Beautified by the Suns communication of its Light and Heat; but the sensitives, have also the Pleasure of it? Shall my Soul be senseless? will it be a Clod or Stone? Shall that which is now the form of be then more Lifeless, Senseless, or uncapable than the form of Brutes is now? Doubtless it will be ⟨p. 137⟩a living, perceiving, sensible Recipient, of the felicitating Love of God and my Redeemer? I shall be loved as a living Spirit, and not as a dead and senseless thing, that doth not comfortably perceive it.
§ 10. And even this blessed Receptivity of my Soul, in terminating the Love and Delight of my glorified Head, must needs be a felicity to me! The insensible Creatures are but Beautified by the Suns communication of its Light and Heat; but the sensitives, have also the Pleasure of it? Shall my Soul be sensless? will it be a Clod or Stone? Shall that which is now the form of be then more Lifeless, Sensless, or uncapable than the form of Bruits is now? Doubtless it will be ⟨p. 137⟩a living, perceiving, sensible Recipient, of the felicitating Love of God and my Redeemer? I shall be loved as a living Spirit, and not as a dead and senseless thing, that doth not comfortably perceive it.