Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…

§ 6. Christ, Moses and Elijah here visibly appeared as three distinct individual Persons: This tells us that it is a false conceit that Death ceaseth Individuation, and turneth all Souls into one: (of which before:) Perfect indivisible infinite Unity is proper to God: From this One is multiplicity. Reason forbids us when we see the numberless individuals in this World, and see also the numerous Stars above, to imagine that all the Worlds above us have so much of Divine Perfection, as to be but one undivided substance, and to have no multiplicity of Inhabitants. Yea, some of those Sadducees hold that the Stars are Worlds inhabited as the Earth is. And ⟨p. 307⟩why then should they think whither soever Souls go, that they cease their individuation) When they go among individuals? But Christ hath confuted them even to Sense. Moses is Moses still, and Elijah is Elijah still: And all our Friends that are gone to Christ, are the same still that they were, and may be called by the same Names. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are the same in Heaven; and Lazarus was Lazarus in Abraham's bosom. When we lay by Flesh, and are unclothed, we put not off our personality: Every one shall receive his own reward, according to what he hath done in the Body, when every one must give account of his own works and talents.

§ 6. Christ, Moses and Elias here visibly appeared as three distinct individual Persons: This tells us that it is a false conceit that Death ceaseth Individuation, and turneth all Souls into one: (of which before:) Perfect indivisible infinite Unity is proper to God: From this One is multiplicity. Reason forbids us when we see the numberless individuals in this World, and see also the numerous Stars above, to imagine that all the Worlds above us have so much of Divine Perfection, as to be but one undivided substance, and to have no multiplicity of Inhabitants. Yea, some of those Sadduces hold that the Stars are Worlds inhabited as the Earth is. And ⟨p. 307⟩why then should they think whither soever Souls go, that they cease their individuation) When they go among individuals? But Christ hath confuted them even to Sense. Moses is Moses still, and Elias is Elias still: And all our Friends that are gone to Christ, are the same still that they were, and may be called by the same Names. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are the same in Heaven; and Lazarus was Lazarus in Abraham's bosom. When we lay by Flesh, and are uncloathed, we put not off our personality: Every one shall receive his own reward, according to what he hath done in the Body, when every one must give account of his own works and talents.