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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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Appendix › The Reasons and Helps of my Belief and Hope of this Perfection.
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III. The universal sense of Moral Good and Evil in all Mankind, is a great evidence of another life. The vilest Atheist cannot abide to be accounted a Knave, a Liar, a bad Man; nor will equal a vicious Servant with another. All would be thought good who will not be good. And doth not God make a greater difference than Man? And will he not show it?
III. The universal sense of Moral Good and Evil in all Mankind, is a great evidence of another life. The vilest Atheist cannot abide to be accounted a Knave, a Lyer, a bad Man; nor will equal a vicious Servant with another. All would be thought good who will not be good. And doth not God make a greater difference than Man? And will he not shew it?
IV. The World is actually ruled much by the hopes and fears of another life, and cannot well be ruled without it, according to the Nature of Man: But the Almighty, most Wise and most Holy God, needs not, and will not rule the World by mere deceit.
IV. The World is actually ruled much by the hopes and fears of another life, and cannot well be ruled without it, according to the Nature of Man: But the Almighty, most Wise and most Holy God, needs not, and will not rule the World by meer deceit.
V. The Gospel of Christ hath brought Life and Immortality into a clearer Light than that of Nature. ⟨p. 291⟩And it must be by believing in Christ that we must have our full satisfaction. O what hath God done in the Wonders of Redemption to make us sure? And against the doubts that are apt to rise from some hard particular Text of Scripture, it must be considered, I. That Christ and his Apostles did put the ascertaining Seal of the many uncontrolled Miracles to the Gospel Doctrine, primarily; which Doctrine, 1. Was delivered and sealed Eight years before any of the New Testament was written, and almost Seventy before the last. 2. And Christ did not speak in the Language that the Gospel is written to us; so that being but a Translation as to his own Words, the Matter is the thing first sealed.