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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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13. Angels will gloriously attend Christ at his return, and sever the Wicked from the Just.
14. Angels will be our Companions in the heavenly Chore for ever.
Therefore, 1. We should love Angels. 2. And be thankful to God for them. 3. And think the more comfortably of Heaven for their Society: 4. And Pray for the benefit of their Ministry on Earth, especially in all our dangers.
IV. The Fourth Article is [Preached to the Gentiles.] The Jews having the Covenant of Peculiarity, were proud of their Privilege, even while they unworthily abused it: And despised the rest of the World, and would not so much as eat with them, as if they had been God's only People. And indeed the rest of the World was so corrupted, that we find no one Nation that as such renounced ⟨p. 274⟩Idolatry, and was devoted in Covenant to the true God alone, as the Jews were. Now that God should be manifested in Flesh, to reconcile the Heathen World to himself, and extend greater Privileges indefinitely to all Nations than ever the Jews had in their state of Peculiarity, this was a Mystery of Godliness, which the Jews did hardly yield belief to.