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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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XXX. When darkness and uncertainty of the manner of the action and fruition of separated Souls would daunt me, it is enough to know explicitly so much as is explicitly revealed, and implicitly to trust Christ with all the rest: Our Eyes are in our Head; who knoweth for us? Knowledge of Glory is part of fruition: And therefore we must expect here no more than is suited to a life of Faith.
XXX. When darkness and uncertainty of the manner of the action and fruition of separated Souls would daunt me, it is enough to know explicitely so much as is explicitely revealed, and implicitely to trust Christ with all the rest: Our Eyes are in our Head; who knoweth for us? Knowledg of Glory is part of fruition: And therefore we must expect here no more than is suited to a life of Faith.
XXXI. All my part is to do my own duty and then trust God; obeying his commanding will, and fully and joyfully resting in his disposing and rewarding will. There is no rest for Souls but in the Will of God, and there with full Trust to repose our Souls in Life and at Death, is the only way of a safe and comfortable departure.
XXXII. The glorious Marriage day of the Lamb cannot now be far off, when the number of the Elect shall be complete, and Christ will come with his glorious Angels, and will be glorified in his Saints, and admired in all Believers, and there shall be a New Heaven, and a New Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness, and that Kingdom shall come, where that which God hath prepared for them that love him, Eye hath not seen, Ear hath not heard, nor hath it entered into the Heart of Man to have a formal, full conception of it.
XXXII. The glorious Marriage day of the Lamb cannot now be far off, when the number of the Elect shall be compleat, and Christ will come with his glorious Angels, and will be glorified in his Saints, and admired in all Believers, and there shall be a New Heaven, and a New Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness, and that Kingdom shall come, where that which God hath prepared for them that love him, Eye hath not seen, Ear hath not heard, nor hath it entred into the Heart of Man to have a formal, full conception of it.