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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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10. This is it that putteth the sweetest relish on all our Mercies: Deny God's love, and you deny them all. If you taste not his love in them, you taste little more than a Beast may taste: Poor Food and Raiment is sweet with the sense of the Love of God. Had I more of this, I should lie down, and rise, and walk in Pleasure and content: I could bear the loss of other things: And though Nature will feel pains, I should have Pleasure and Peace in the midst of all my pains, and groans. This is the white Stone, the New Name: No Man well knoweth it who never felt it in himself.
10. This is it that putteth the sweetest relish on all our Mercies: Deny God's love, and you deny them all. If you tast not his love in them, you taste little more than a Beast may taste: Poor Food and Rayment is sweet with the sense of the Love of God. Had I more of this, I should lie down, and rise, and walk in Pleasure and content: I could bear the loss of other things: And though Nature will feel pains, I should have Pleasure and Peace in the midst of all my pains, and groans. This is the white Stone, the New Name: No Man well knoweth it who never felt it in himself.
1. There is no dying comfortably without this experienced ⟨p. 368⟩taste of the Love of God. This will draw up the desires of the Soul: Love tasted, casteth out fear; though God be Holy and Just, and Judgment terrible, and Hell intolerable, and the Soul hath no distinct Idea of its future state out of the Body, and though we see not whither it is that we must go, the taste of God's love will make it go joyfully, as trusting him; as a Child will go any whither in his Father's power and hand.
1. There is no dying comfortably without this experienced ⟨p. 368⟩taste of the Love of God. This will draw up the desires of the Soul: Love tasted, casteth out fear; though God be Holy and Just, and Judgment terrible, and Hell intollerable, and the Soul hath no distinct Idea of its future state out of the Body, and though we see not whither it is that we must go, the taste of God's love will make it go joyfully, as trusting him; as a Child will go any whither in his Father's power and hand.