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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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§ 1. I. God manifested in the Flesh of Jesus, is the first and great Article. Believe this and believe all: No wonder that believing that Jesus Christ is the Son ⟨p. 261⟩of God is so often made in Scripture, the description of saving Faith, the Title to Baptism, and Pardon, and Salvation, the Evidence of the Spirit, &c. He that truly and practically believeth that God came in Flesh to Man, and that Christ is the Fathers Messenger from Heaven, must needs believe that God hath a great value for the Souls of men and for his Church, that he despiseth not even our Flesh, that his Word is true and fully to be trusted, that he who so wonderfully came to Man, will certainly take up Man to him: Who can doubt of the Immortality of Souls, or that Christ will receive the departing Souls of the Faithful to himself, who believeth that he took Man's Nature, and hath glorified it now in Heaven, in union with the Divine? Who can ever have low Thoughts of God's love and Mercy who believeth this? And who can prostitute his Soul and Flesh to wickedness, who firmly believeth that he took the Soul and Flesh of Man, to sanctify and glorify it.
§ 1. I. God manifested in the Flesh of Jesus, is the first and great Article. Believe this and believe all: No wonder that believing that Jesus Christ is the Son ⟨p. 261⟩of God is so often made in Scripture, the description of saving Faith, the Title to Baptism, and Pardon, and Salvation, the Evidence of the Spirit, &c. He that truly and practically believeth that God came in Flesh to Man, and that Christ is the Fathers Messenger from Heaven, must needs believe that God hath a great value for the Souls of men and for his Church, that he despiseth not even our Flesh, that his Word is true and fully to be trusted, that he who so wonderfully came to Man, will certainly take up Man to him: Who can doubt of the Immortality of Souls, or that Christ will receive the departing Souls of the Faithful to himself, who believeth that he took Man's Nature, and hath glorified it now in Heaven, in union with the Divine? Who can ever have low Thoughts of God's love and Mercy who believeth this? And who can prostitute his Soul and Flesh to wickedness, who firmly believeth that he took the Soul and Flesh of Man, to sanctifie and glorifie it.