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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
And the words are necessary but for the Matter, which they do record.
And, 1. All Ministers, and all Churches constantly used this same Scripture publicly, and privately, as the Word of God; so that it could not be easily altered.
And, 1. All Ministers, and all Churches constantly used this same Scripture publickly, and privately, as the Word of God; so that it could not be easily altered.
2. They all knew that a Curse is pronounced against every one that addeth or diminisheth: Which must needs possess them with fear of corrupting it.
3. They took it to be the Charter of their own Salvation.
4. The work of the Ministers was to expound it, and preserve it against Corrupters.