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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.
Appendix › I. The differences between this World, and that which I am going to.
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.
But in Heaven an Universal knowledge of God's wonderful Works will not be the least of the Glory in which he will shine to Saints.
LVI. Distance and Darkness of Souls here in Flesh, who would Fain know more of God and the heavenly World, and cannot, doth make our lives a burden by these unsatisfied desires.
There Glorious Presence and Intuition giveth full satisfaction.
LVII. Our sin and imperfection here render us uncapable of being the Objects of God's full complacential Love, though we have his ⟨p. 289⟩benevolence which will bring us to it.
But there we shall in our several measures perfectly please God, and be perfectly pleased in God for ever.