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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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§ 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.
§ 35. And whom should we hear so willingly, so obediently as Christ? Abraham sent not Dives's Brethren to the King or to the High-priest to know what Religion he should choose, or what he should do to escape Hell torments: But it was Moses, and the Prophets that they must hear. But God from Heaven hath sent us yet a better Teacher, and commanded us to hear Him: Moses was faithful in God's House as a Servant, but Christ as a Son: His Authority is above Kings and High-priests; and they have no Power now but from him; and therefore none against him, or his Laws: All commands are null to Conscience which contradict him: The examples in Da. 3. & 6. and of the Apostles tell us whether God or Man should be first obeyed. Therefore it is that the Bible is more necessary to be searched and learned than the Statute Book or Canons: Were Man to be heard before Christ, or against him, or as necessarily as he, why have we not Law Preachers every Lord's day to expound the Statutes, and Canons to all the People? And why are they not Catechized out of the Book of Canons, or Law, as well as out of the Bible.