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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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§ 17. III. That God is the Rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and that holy Souls shall be in blessedness with Christ, these following Evidences conjoined do evince; on which my Soul doth raise its Hopes.
§ 17. III. That God is the Rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and that holy Souls shall be in blessedness with Christ, these following Evidences conjoyned do evince; on which my Soul doth raise its Hopes.
§ 18. I. The Soul which is an Immortal Spirit, must be immortally in a Good or Bad condition: But Man's Soul is an Immortal Spirit, and the good are not in a bad condition: Its Immortality is proved thus: A spiritual, or most pure invisible substance naturally endowed with the Power, Virtue, or Faculty of Vital-Action, Intellection and Volition, which is not annihilated, nor destroyed by separation of Parts, nor ceaseth or loseth either its Power, Species, Individuation or Action, is an Immortal Spirit. But such is the Soul of Man, as shall be manifest by parts.
§ 19. I. The Soul is a substance: For that which is Nothing, can do Nothing; but it doth move, understand and will. No man will deny that this is done by something in us, and by some substance; and that substance is it which we call the Soul: It is not Nothing, and it is within us.