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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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§ 5. But I think it not meet to venture here upon uncertain conjectures beyond the revelation of God's Word, and therefore shall add no more, but conclude that God knoweth what use to make of us hereafter as well as here, and that if there were no more for us to do in Heaven, but with perfect Knowledge, Love and Joy, to hold communion with God and all the heavenly Society, it were enough to attract a sensible and considerate Soul to fervent desires to be at home with God.
§ 5. But I think it not meet to venture here upon uncertain conjectures beyond the revelation of God's Word, and therefore shall add no more, but conclude that God knoweth what use to make of us hereafter as well as here, and that if there were no more for us to do in Heaven, but with perfect Knowledg, Love and Joy, to hold communion with God and all the heavenly Society, it were enough to attract a sensible and considerate Soul to fervent desires to be at home with God.
§ 6. And here I must not overpass my rejection of the injurious opinion of too many Philosophers and Divines, who exclude all Sense and Affection from Heaven, and acknowledge nothing there but Intellect and Will: And this is because they find Sense and Affection in the Brutes, and they think that the souls of Brutes are but some quality or perishing temperament of Matter; and therefore that Sense and Affection is in us no better.
§ 6. And here I must not overpass my rejection of the injurious opinion of too many Philosophers and Divines, who exclude all Sense and Affection from Heaven, and acknowledge nothing there but Intellect and Will: And this is because they find Sense and Affection in the Bruits, and they think that the souls of Bruits are but some quality or perishing temperament of Matter; and therefore that Sense and Affection is in us no better.