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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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§ 23. Believe, O my Soul, thy Saviours Love that thou mayest foretaste it and be fit to feel it. We were uncapable in sinful Flesh of seeing him otherwise than as clothed with Flesh; and his consolations were administered by a word of Promise suitable to his appearance: But when he withdrew his bodily presence, the Comforter was sent with a fuller Consolation: But all that was but the earnest and the first fruits of what he will be to us for ever: Be not seldom, not unbelieving, ⟨p. 182⟩nor slight in the thoughts of thy Saviours love; for it is he that is the way to the Infinite love: Let thy believing be so much of thy daily work, that thou mayest say, that he dwelleth in thy Heart by Faith, Eph. 3. 17. and that while thou livest here it is Christ that liveth in thee; and that thy life in the Flesh is not a fleshly life, but by the Faith of the Son of God that hath loved thee and given himself for thee, Gal. 2. 20. And that though thou see him not, yet believing thou lovest him also with unspeakable Joy, as believing the unspeakable, perfect Joy which his Love-will communicate to thee for ever.
§ 23. Believe, O my Soul, thy Saviours Love that thou maist foretast it and be fit to feel it. We were uncapable in sinful Flesh of seeing him otherwise than as cloathed with Flesh; and his consolations were administred by a word of Promise suitable to his appearance: But when he withdrew his bodily presence, the Comforter was sent with a fuller Consolation: But all that was but the earnest and the first fruits of what he will be to us for ever: Be not seldom, not unbelieving, ⟨p. 182⟩nor slight in the thoughts of thy Saviours love; for it is he that is the way to the Infinite love: Let thy believing be so much of thy daily work, that thou maist say, that he dwelleth in thy Heart by Faith, Eph. 3. 17. and that while thou livest here it is Christ that liveth in thee; and that thy life in the Flesh is not a fleshly life, but by the Faith of the Son of God that hath loved thee and given himself for thee,