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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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§ 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.
§ 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 Smoak, 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, pittying and bearing with their heaviness and infirmity, strengthning 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 terrour was by Moses, but Grace and Truth, Peace and Pleasure are by Christ.
This was an inviting and delighting▪ and not an affrighting Apparition: Was it not a shameful infirmity and a sin, that Peter should deny Christ after such a sight as this; and the rest of the Disciples forsake him and fly? What! after they had seen the Kingdom of God come in Power, and Christ's Face shine as the Sun in its brightness? Could they forget all this? Or could they doubt whether he or his Persecutors were the stronger, and liker to prevail at last? O how frail, how uncertain, how bad a thing is depraved Man?