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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.
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.
LVIII. All things here are short and transitory, from their beginning, posting towards their end, which is near and sure, and still in our Eye: so short is time, that Beings here are next to nothing; the Bubble of worldly Prosperity, Pomp and fleshly Pleasure, doth swell up, and break in so short a Moment, as that it Is, and and Is not almost at once.
But the heavenly substances and their work, and Joys, are crowned by Duration, being assuredly EVERLASTING.