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

§ 15. 1. Think here, O my Soul, how sweet a state▪ unto thee it will be to Love the Lord Jesus thy glorified Head with perfect love! When the glory of God which shineth in him, will feast thy love with full and everlasting pleasure: The highest created Perfection of Power, Wisdom, and Goodness, refulgent in him, will not give leave to thy Love, to cease, or intermit, or abate its fervour. When thou shalt see in the glorified Church the precious fruits of Christ's Redemption, Grace, and Love, this also will feed thy love to him, from whom this heavenly Glory cometh: And when thou shalt feel thy self possest of perfect happiness, by his Love to thee, will not this also do its part? Yea the remembrance of all his former Love; what he did for thee, and what he did in thee here on Earth, how he called thee with a Holy calling, how he washed thee in his Blood from all thy sins, how he kindled in thee those desires which tended to that perfect Glory, how he renewed thy Nature, how he instructed, and guided, and preserved thee from thy Childhood, and how many and how great sins, enemies, dangers, and ⟨p. 173⟩sufferings he saved thee from, all this will constrain thee Everlastingly to love him: Thus, (though he give the Kingdom to the Father as ceasing his Mediatory, healing, saving work of acquisition) he will be to thee the Mediator of fruition: God in him will be accessible, and condescend to a suitable communion with us, Joh. 17. 24. And as Christ is thy Life, radically and efficiently, as he is the giver of Grace and the Spirit of Love, so he will be Objectively thy Life as he is Lovely, and it will be formally thy Life to Love him, and God in him for ever.

§ 15. 1. Think here, O my Soul, how sweet a state▪ unto thee it will be to Love the Lord Jesus thy glor•fied Head with perfect love! When the glory of God which shineth in him, will feast thy love with full and everlasting pleasure: The highest created Perfection of Power, Wisdom, and Goodness, refulgent in him, will not give leave to thy Love, to cease, or intermit, or abate its fervour. When thou shalt see in the glorified Church the precious fruits of Christ's Redemption, Grace, and Love, this also will feed thy love to him, from whom this heavenly Glory cometh: And when thou shalt feel thy self possest of perfect happiness, by his Love to thee, will not this also do its part? Yea the remembrance of all his former Love; what he did for thee, and what he did in thee here on Earth, how he called thee with a Holy calling, how he washed thee in his Blood from all thy sins, how he kindled in thee those desires which tended to that perfect Glory, how he renewed thy Nature, how he instructed, and guided, and preserved thee from thy Childhood, and how many and how great sins, enemies, dangers, and