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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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8. And yet they all agreed in the same Doctrine, when they were dispersed over the World; and never differed in any one Article of Faith.
9 They were men that had no worldly Interest, Wealth or Dominion to seek.
10. Yea, they renounced and denied all worldly Interest, and sealed their Testimony by their Sufferings and Blood; and all in hope of a heavenly reward which they knew that Lying was no means to obtain.
11. Had they plotted to cheat the World (for nothing) the sin is so heinous that some one of them would have repented and confessed it, at least, at death; which none of them did, but died joyfully as for the Truth.
11. Had they plotted to cheat the World (for nothing) the sin is so heinous that some one of them would have repented and confest it, at least, at death; which none of them did, but died joyfully as for the Truth.