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

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Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and the latter times of his corporal pains and weakness.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by Tho. Snowden for B. Simmons, 1683

[30], 381 p. : port. · 128k words · Wing B1256 · ESTC R2942

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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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And O what a glorious state will be that common uniting and united love! If two or three Candles joined together make a greater flame and light, what would Ten thousand Stars united do▪ When all the LOVE of Angels and Saints in full Perfection, shall be so united as to make ONE LOVE, to God that is One, and to one another who are there all one in Christ, O what a glorious LOVE will that be? That LOVE and JOY will be the same thing: And that One universal LOVE will be One universal JOY.

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Little know we how great a Mercy it is to be here commanded to love our Neighbours as our selves; and much more to be effectually taught of God so to love one another. And did we all here live in such unfeigned Love, we should be like to Heaven, as bearing the Image of the God of Love: But alas, our Societies here are small; our Goodness which is our Amiableness woefully imperfect, and mixed with loathsome sin and discord: But there a whole Heaven ful• of blessed Spirits will flame for ever in perfect Love to God, to Christ, and one another.

Little know we how great a Mercy it is to be here commanded to love our Neighbours as our selves; and much more to be effectually taught of God so to love one another. And did we all here live in such unfeigned Love, we should be like to Heaven, as bearing the Image of the God of Love: But alas, our Societies here are small; our Goodness which is our Amiableness wofully imperfect, and mixt with loathsom sin and discord: But there a whole Heaven ful• of blessed Spirits will flame for ever in perfect Love to God, to Christ, and one another.

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Go then, go willingly, O my Soul! Love joineth with LIGHT to draw up thy desires! Nature inclineth all things unto Union! Even the lifeless Elements have an Aggregative motion, by which the parts when violently separated, do hastily return to their Natural adhesion. Art thou a Lover of Wisdom, and wouldst thou not be united to the Wise? Art thou a Lover of Holiness, and of Love itself, and wouldst thou not be united to the Holy who are made of Love? Art thou a hater of enmity, discord and divisions, and a Lover of Unity here on Earth, and wouldst thou not be where all the just are One? It is not an unnatural Union to thy loss: Nothing shall be taken from thee by it: Thou shalt

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The book

Title as printed

Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and the latter times of his corporal pains and weakness.

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Printer

Tho. Snowden

Bookseller

B. Simmons

Year

1683

Size

[30], 381 p. : port.

Words

128,349

Catalogue

Wing B1256 · ESTC R2942

Text

EEBO-TCP A26921

Passages

1,039

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

V. The Constitutive Reasons from the heavenly Life or Practice.