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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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§ 4. And seeing it is most certain that the Superior glorious Regions are full of blessed Spirits who do see God and one another, having much more perfect Operations than we have (whose effects we Mortals find here below) why should I that find an Intellective Nature in my self, make any doubt of my more perfect Operations when I am dismissed hence (being satisfied that a Soul will not lose its simple Essence.) Either those superior Spirits have ethereal Bodies to act in (or are such themselves) or not: If they are or have such, why should I doubt of the like; and think that my Substance or Vehicle will not be according to the Region of my abode. If not, why should I think that my departed Soul may not know or see without an igneous or ethereal Body or Vehicle, as well as all those worlds of Spirits. And the certainty of Apparitions, Possessions, and Witches do tell us, not only that there ⟨p. 144⟩are such Inhabitants of other Regions, Ordinarily invisible to us, but also that we are in the way to that Happiness or Misery which is in our invisible state.
§ 4. And seeing it is most certain that the Superior glorious Regions are full of blessed Spirits who do see God and one another, having much more perfect Operations than we have (whose effects we Mortals find here below) why should I that find an Intellective Nature in my self, make any doubt of my more perfect Operations when I am dismissed hence (being satisfied that a Soul will not lose its simple Essence.) Either those superiour Spirits have ethereal Bodies to act in (or are such themselves) or not: If they are or have such, why should I doubt of the like; and think that my Substance or Vehicle will not be according to the Region of my abode. If not, why should I think that my departed Soul may not know or see without an igneous or ethereal Body or Vehicle, as well as all those worlds of Spirits. And the certainty of Apparitions, Possessions, and Witches do tell us, not only that there ⟨p. 144⟩are such Inhabitants of other Regions, Ordinarily invisible to us, but also that we are in the way to that Happiness or Misery which is in our invisible state.