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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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And in this sense we pray, Thy Kingdom come.
§ 4. To make men believe that he is the heavenly King sent from God to cast down Satan's Kingdom, was the great business of the preaching of the Gospel: This he would demonstrate, as by all his Miracles which showed him to have the Victory of Devils, and to be the Lord of Life, so also by visible Apparition in Glory. And as it is said, 1 Joh. 5. 7, 8. that there are three Witnesses in Heaven, and three on Earth, so here Christ would have three heavenly, and three earthly Witnesses of his Transfiguration. From Heaven he had the Witness, 1. Of a Voice proclaiming, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, hear him. 2. Of Moses the chief Lawgiver. 3. And of Elijah the chief Prophet; to tell us that the Law and the Prophets, are his prognosticating Witnesses: But [Hear him] notifieth to us, that Christ and his Gospel are to be heard above the Law and the Prophets, and to teach ⟨p. 303⟩us more than they could teach us: The Law was given by Moses, (with its types and shadows,) but Grace and Truth (the substance so typified) are by Jesus Christ.
§ 4. To make men believe that he is the heavenly King sent from God to cast down Satans Kingdom, was the great business of the preaching of the Gospel: This he would demonstrate, as by all his Miracles which shewed him to have the Victory of Devils, and to be the Lord of Life, so also by visible Apparition in Glory. And as it is said, 1 Joh. 5. 7, 8. that there are three Witnesses in Heaven, and three on Earth, so here Christ would have three heavenly, and three earthly Witnesses of his Transfiguration. From Heaven he had the Witness, 1. Of a Voice proclaiming, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, hear him. 2. Of Moses the chief Lawgiver. 3. And of Elias the chief Prophet; to tell us that the Law and the Prophets, are his prognosticating Witnesses: But [Hear him] notifieth to us, that Christ and his Gospel are to be heard above the Law and the Prophets, and to teach