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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. › The Concluding Application.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. He is Essential Infinite Perfection, Power, Wisdom and Love? There is in him all that should invite and encourage rational trust, and nothing that should discourage it.
2. There is nothing in any Creature to be trusted, but God in that Creature, or God working in and by it. Distrust him and there is nothing to be trusted: Not the Earth to bear me, nor the Air to breath in, much less any mutable Friend.
3. I am altogether his Own: His Own by right, and his own by devotion and consent: And shall I not trust him with his own.
4. He is the great Benefactor of all the World, that giveth all good to every Creature, not by constraint, nor by commutation, but as freely as the Sun giveth forth its light: And shall we not trust the Sun to shine?
5. He is my Father and special Benefactor; and hath taken me into his Family as his Child: And shall I not trust my heavenly Father?