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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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§ 19. When the Disciples awaked they saw these glorious ones in converse! Did they hear what they said, or did Christ after tell them? The later is most probable: Doubtless as Moses tells us how God made the World, which none could tell him but by God's telling them first; so the Apostles have written many things of Christ, which they neither saw nor heard, but from Christ that told it them by Word or Inspiration. How else knew they what Satan said and did to him in his Temptations in the Wilderness, and on the Pinnacle of the Temple? How knew they what his Prayer was in his Agony? And so in this instance also. But Christ's own testimony was enough to put them out of Doubt, to them that daily saw his confirming Miracles.
§ 19. When the Disciples awaked they saw these glorious ones in converse! Did they hear what they said, or did Christ after tell them? The later is most probable: Doubtless as Moses tells us how God made the World, which none could tell him but by God's telling them first; so the Apostles have written many things of Christ, which they neither saw nor heard, but from Christ that told it them by Word or Inspiration. How else knew they what Satan said and did to him in his Temptations in the Wilderness, and on the Pinacle of the Temple? How knew they what his Prayer was in his Agony? And so in this instance also. But Christ's own testimony was enough to put them out of Doubt, to them that daily saw his confirming Miracles.
§ 20. How great a difference was there between Mount Sinai and this Mount? When, God delivered ⟨p. 327⟩the Law to Moses, that Mount was terrible in Flame, and Smoke, and Thunder, so that the People trembled and fled: But now here is nothing but Life, and Light, and Love from Heaven. A merciful Redeemer whose Face shined as the Sun, with heavenly Company, appearing nearly to the Disciples, pitying and bearing with their heaviness and infirmity, strengthening their Faith and Hope, and proving to them a Resurrection and a heavenly Kingdom, by a visible Apparition of some of its Possessors. This was not a frightful, but a confirming delectable sight: The Law in terror was by Moses, but Grace and Truth, Peace and Pleasure are by Christ.