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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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§ 33. As Christ is called the Son of God, so also are all his Members: We have so far the same title, that we might partake of the same comforts: He is God's only Son by Eternal Generation, and the hypostatical union upon his miraculous conception: But through him we are Sons by Regeneration and Adoption. And shall not the love of such a Father be trusted, and the presence and pleasing of such a Father be desired? If Manoah's Wife could say, If he would have killed us Re would not have accepted a Sacrifice of us; I may say, If he would have damned me, or forsaken my departing Soul, he would not have Adopted me, nor made and called me his Son Christ was made his Incarnate Son, that we might be made his Adopted Sons: And we are made his Adopted Sons, for the sake and by the Grace of Christ his Natural Son.
§ 34. The Command [Hear him] is Relative as to Moses and Elijah: 1. Hear him whom the Law and the Prophets typified and foretold, and were his Servants and Preparatory Instructors▪ to lead us to him. 2. Hear him before Moses and the Prophets, where his Coming and Covenant abrogateth the Law of Moses, and as a greater Light he obscureth the less: He hath ⟨p. 346⟩revealed more than they revealed; and the same more clearly: Life and Immortality is more fully brought to light by him: His Gospel is as the Heart of the Holy Bible: We use the Old Testament Books especially as the Witnesses of Christ.
§ 34. The Command [Hear him] is Relative as to Moses and Elias: 1. Hear him whom the Law and the Prophets typified and foretold, and were his Servants and Preparatory Instructors▪ to lead us to him. 2. Hear him before Moses and the Prophets, where his Coming and Covenant abrogateth the Law of Moses, and as a greater Light he obscureth the less: He hath ⟨p. 346⟩revealed more than they revealed; and the same more clearly: Life and Immortality is more fully brought to light by him: His Gospel is as the Heart of the Holy Bible: We use the Old Testament Books especially as the Witnesses of Christ.