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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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If you say, There are as good men among the Heathens and Mahometans, as holy heavenly, and just:
I answer, It is none of my business to depreciate other men: But I can say, 1. That I have lived above Sixty seven years, and I never knew one serious holy Person in England that was made such by the Writings of Heathens or Mahometans. 2. Many excellent things are in the Writings of some Heathens, Plato, Cicero, Hierocles, Plutarch, Antonine, Epictetus, and many others. But I miss in them the expressions of that holy and heavenly frame of mind and life, and that Victory over the Flesh and World, which Christianity containeth.
I answer, It is none of my business to depretiate other men: But I can say, 1. That I have lived above Sixty seven years, and I never knew one serious holy Person in England that was made such by the Writings of Heathens or Mahometans. 2. Many excellent things are in the Writings of some Heathens, Plato, Cicero, Hierocles, Plutarch, Antonine, Epictetus, and many others. But I miss in them the expressions of that holy and heavenly frame of mind and life, and that Victory over the Flesh and World, which Christianity containeth.
3. Christ is like the Sun, whose Beams give some light, before it is seen its self at its rising, and after it is set. The Light of Jews and Heathens, was as the dawning of the Day before Sun rising: And the light among the Mahometans is like the Light of the Sun which it leaveth when it is set.