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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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V. I shall better understand all the World of God! The Matter, and the Method of it! Though I shall shall not have that use for it as I have now in this Life of Faith, yet I shall see more of God's Wisdom and his ⟨p. 157⟩Goodness, his Love, Mercy, and Justice appearing in it, than ever Man on Earth could do! As the Creatures, so the Scriptures are perfectly known only by perfect Spirits. I shall then know how to solve all doubts, and reconcile all seeming contradictions, and to expound the hardest Prophesies: That light will show me the admirable Methods of those Sacred words, where dark minds now suspect confusion! How evident and clear then will every thing appear to me? Like a small print when the light comes in, which I could not read in the glimmering twilight. How easily shall I then confute the cavils of all our present Unbelievers? And how joyfully shall I praise that God and Saviour, that gave his Church so clear a light to guide them through this darksome World, and so sure a promise to support them till they came to life Eternal? How joyfully shall I bless him that by that immortal Seed did regenerate me to the hopes of Glory? And that ruled me by so Holy and Just a Law?
V. I shall better understand all the World of God! The Matter, and the Method of it! Though I shall shall not have that use for it as I have now in this Life of Faith, yet I shall see more of God's Wisdom and his ⟨p. 157⟩Goodness, his Love, Mercy, and Justice appearing in it, than ever Man on Earth could do! As the Creatures, so the Scriptures are perfectly known only by perfect Spirits. I shall then know how to solve all doubts, and reconcile all seeming contradictions, and to expound the hardest Prophesies: That light will shew me the admirable Methods of those Sacred words, where dark minds now suspect confusion! How evident and clear then will every thing appear to me? Like a small print when the light comes in, which I could not read in the glimmering twilight. How easily shall I then confute the cavils of all our present Unbelievers? And how joyfully shall I praise that God and Saviour, that gave his Church so clear a light to guide them through this darksom World, and so sure a promise to support them till they came to life Eternal? How joyfully shall I bless him that by that immortal Seed did regenerate me to the hopes of Glory? And that ruled me by so Holy and Just a Law?