A26921:383
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Richard Baxter's Dying Thoughts. › Part 4: IV. The Constitutive Reasons from the state of my will.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 1. But it is the WILL that is to the Soul, what the Heart is to the Body: As it is the prime •eat of Morality, ⟨p. 164⟩so is it the chief seat of Felicity. My greatest Evil […] there; and my greatest subjective Good will be there. Satan did most against it, and God will do most for it. And will it not be better with Christ than here?
§ 1. But it is the WILL that is to the Soul, what the Heart is to the Body: As it is the prime •eat of Morality, ⟨p. 164⟩so is it the chief seat of Felicity. My greatest Evil 〈…〉 there; and my greatest subjective Good will be there. Satan did most against it, and God will do most for it. And will it not be better with Christ than here?
1. It will not there by tied to a body of cross interests and inclinations, which is now the greatest snare and enemy to my Soul? Which is still drawing my love, and care, and fears, and sorrows, to and for it self, and turning them from my highest interest. How great a deliverance will it be, to be freed from the temptations, and the inordinate love, and cares, and fears for this corruptible Flesh?
1. It will not there by tyed to a body of cross interests and inclinations, which is now the greatest snare and enemy to my Soul? Which is still drawing my love, and care, and fears, and sorrows, to and for it self, and turning them from my highest interest. How great a deliverance will it be, to be freed from the temptations, and the inordinate love, and cares, and fears for this corruptible Flesh?