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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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4. It is a work so good that it beareth God's own Image: It is but the writing of his Law and Gospel on mens Hearts: None is so much for it as God. Satan apparently fighteth against it with all the power he can raise in the World. Mark it and you will find that most of the stir that there is in the World, by false Teachers, and Tyrants, and private Malice, is but Satan's Wars against Faith and Holiness, and Love: Certainly it is not he that promoteth them.
4. It is a work so good that it beareth God's own Image: It is but the writing of his Law and Gospel on mens Hearts: None is so much for it as God. Satan apparently fighteth against it with all the power he can raise in the VVorld. Mark it and you will find that most of the stir that there is in the VVorld, by false Teachers, and Tyrants, and private Malice, is but Satans VVars against Faith and Holiness, and Love: Certainly it is not he that promoteth them.
IV. And it is evident in Experience, that it is the Gospel of Christ which God useth and blesseth, to do this great sanctifying work on Souls. Among Christians none are converted by any other means And God would not bless a word of falsehood and deceit to such great ⟨p. 279⟩and excellent effects: All that are made holy and heavenly and truly conscionable among us, are made so by Christ's Gospel: And all the wicked are Enemies to the serious practice of it, or Rebels that despise it. The effects daily prove that God himself owneth it as his Word.
IV. And it is evident in Experience, that it is the Gospel of Christ which God useth and blesseth, to do this great sanctifying work on Souls. Among Christians none are converted by any other means And God would not bless a word of falshood and deceit to such great ⟨p. 279⟩and excellent effects: All that are made holy and heavenly and truly conscionable among us, are made so by Christ's Gospel: And all the wicked are Enemies to the serious practice of it, or Rebels that despise it. The effects daily prove that God himself owneth it as his Word.