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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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It is a foolish thing to think as some do, that departed Souls will be as dormant, and unactive, as in Apoplectic or Sleeping Persons, for want of Organized Bodies to act in. Spirits are Essentially Active, Intellective, and Volitive: And will God continue such Essential Powers in vain? Moses and Elijah wanted not Bodies: And those in Heaven can praise Jehovah and the Lamb with holy concordant Love and Joy; whether in any sort of ethereal Bodies or without, we shall shortly know.
It is a foolish thing to think as some do, that departed Souls will be as dormant, and unactive, as in Apopletick or Sleeping Persons, for want of Organized Bodies to act in. Spirits are Essentially Active, Intellective, and Volitive: And will God continue such Essential Powers in vain? Moses and Elias wanted not Bodies: And those in Heaven can praise Jehovah and the Lamb with holy concordant Love and Joy; whether in any sort of ethereal Bodies or without, we shall shortly know.
§ 8. It is said that Moses and Elijah talked with Christ: This showeth that Christ hath familiar communion with the Blessed. He that would come into Flesh on Earth; and live with Man in an humbled state, and refused not familiar converse with poor men and women, and would eat and drink with Publicans and Sinners, will not refuse everlasting near familiarity with the glorified: If the Church be his dearly beloved Spouse, and as it were one with him, as his Body, surely he will be no stranger to the least and lowest Member of it.
§ 8. It is said that Moses and Elias talked with Christ: This sheweth that Christ hath familiar communion with the Blessed. He that would come into Flesh on Earth; and live with Man in an humbled state, and refused not familiar converse with poor men and women, and would eat and drink with Publicans and Sinners, will not refuse everlasting near familiarity with the glorified: If the Church be his dearly beloved Spouse, and as it were one with him, as his Body, surely he will be no stranger to the least and lowest Member of it.