A26921:870
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 17. Though the three Disciples were admitted to this glorious Society, how different was their case from that of Christ, and Moses, and Elijah? In the beginning of the heavenly concourse, they were asleep with heaviness: Even while this glorious Company stood near them: Alas, such is our infirmity in Flesh, and such a Clog are these earthly Bodies to us, that when God is present, and Heaven is before us, and we have the greatest cause to watch and pray, a heavy, weary, sluggish Body, even fettereth an active Spirit, and we sleep or turn away in wandering Thoughts, when we should seriously converse with Christ and Heaven: Alas, what unworthy Servants hath our Lord! Are such as these meet for his work, his Love, his Acceptance, or his Kingdom? But, O how merciful a Saviour have we, ⟨p. 325⟩who taketh not his poor Servants at the worst, but when they after served him thus in his Agony, he gently rebuketh them; Could you not watch with me one Hour: and that with an excuse, The Spirit is willing, but the Flesh is weak.
§ 17. Though the three Disciples were admitted to this glorious Society, how different was their case from that of Christ, and Moses, and Elias? In the beginning of the heavenly concourse, they were asleep with heaviness: Even while this glorious Company stood near them: Alas, such is our infirmity in Flesh, and such a Clog are these earthly Bodies to us, that when God is present, and Heaven is before us, and we have the greatest cause to watch and pray, a heavy, weary, sluggish Body, even fettereth an active Spirit, and we sleep or turn away in wandering Thoughts, when we should seriously converse with Christ and Heaven: Alas, what unworthy Servants hath our Lord! Are such as these meet for his work, his Love, his Acceptance, or his Kingdom? But, O how merciful a Saviour have we, ⟨p. 325⟩who taketh not his poor Servants at the worst, but when they after served him thus in his Agony, he gently rebuketh them; Could you not watch with me one Hour: and that with an excuse, The Spirit is willing, but the Flesh is weak.