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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 4: IV. The Constitutive Reasons from the state of my will.
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§ 21. II. But though all my Receivings will be from God, they will not be from him alone: We must live in perfect Union also with one another, and with all the heavenly Society; and therefore as we must love them all, so shall we be beloved by them all: And this will be a subordinate part of our blessedness: God there will make use of second causes, even in communicating his Love and Glory.
§ 22. 1. The Lord Jesus Christ will not only be the Object of our delightful love, but will also love us with an effectual operative love for ever: His love will be as the Vital Heat and Motion of the Heart to all the Members; the Root of our Life and Joy. The Love of our Redeemer will flow out into us all as the Vital Spirits, and his Face of Glory will be the Sun of the heavenly Jerusalem, and will shine upon us, and show us God: And in his light we shall have light. Did his tears for a dead Lazarus make men say, Behold how he loved him! O then what will the reviving Beams of heavenly life, make us say of that love, which filleth us with the pleasures of his presence, and turneth our Souls into JOY it self! He comforteth us now by the teaching of his Word; but surely the fruition of Salvation will be more gladding then the tidings of it! When he that told us of Glory in his Gospel shall give it us, we shall not only believe but feel that he loveth us.
§ 22. 1. The Lord Jesus Christ will not only be the Object of our delightful love, but will also love us with an effectual operative love for ever: His love will be as the Vital Heat and Motion of the Heart to all the Members; the Root of our Life and Joy. The Love of our Redeemer will flow out into us all as the Vital Spirits, and his Face of Glory will be the Sun of the heavenly Jerusalem, and will shine upon us, and shew us God: And in his light we shall have light. Did his tears for a dead Lazarus make men say, Behold how he loved him! O then what will the reviving Beams of heavenly life, make us say of that love, which filleth us with the pleasures of his presence, and turneth our Souls into JOY it self! He comforteth us now by the teaching of his Word; but surely the fruition of Salvation will be more gladding then the tidings of it! When he that told us of Glory in his Gospel shall give it us, we shall not only believe but feel that he loveth us.