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A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed showing wherein its enmity…A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed shewing wherein its enmity…
A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed showing wherein its enmity consisteth and how it is destroyed : part of it was preached at the funerals [sic] of Elizabeth, the late wife of Mr. Joseph Baker ... / by Rich. Baxter ; with some few passages of the life of the said Mrs. Baker observed.A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed shewing wherein its enmity consisteth and how it is destroyed : part of it was preached at the funerals [sic] of Elizabeth, the late wife of Mr. Joseph Baker ... / by Rich. Baxter ; with some few passages of the life of the said Mrs. Baker observed.
London: printed by R.W. for Nev. Simmons, 1660
Sermon › Section 8 › Application 6: Use 6.Sermon › Section 8 › Application 6: Ʋse 6.
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If you ask, How is all this to be ascribed to Christ? I answer, many ways: 1. It is he that hath now the Keys or power of death and hell, even he that liveth and was dead, and that liveth for evermore, Rev. 1.18. and therefore is to be feared by the world. 2. It is he that hath by his Blood & Covenant brought us the Hope of everlasting life; which is it that gives the efficacy to death. Without this men would be but desperate, and think that it is better have a little pleasure then none at all, and so would give up ⟨p. 103⟩themselves to sin, and desperately gratify their flesh by all the wickedness they could devise. 3. And it is Christ that teacheth men the right use of death, by his holy doctrine, having brought life and immortality to light by his Gospel. 4. And it is Christ that sendeth forth the holy Spirit, which only doth so illuminate the mind, and quicken and dispose the heart, that Death may be savingly improved. The poison is our own: but it is his skill and love that hath made a Sovereign antidote of it. And let our bodies die, so our sin may die. If the foresight of Death destroy our sin, and further our sanctification, and the hour of death doth end our fears and enter us into the state of glory, though we will love death as death never the better for this, much less the sin that caused it; yet must we admire the love of our Redeemer.
If you ask, How is all this to be ascribed to Christ? I answer, many wayes: 1. It is he that hath now the Keyes or power of death and hell, even he that liveth and was dead, and that liveth for evermore, Rev. 1.18. and therefore is to be feared by the world. 2. It is he that hath by his Blood & Covenant brought us the Hope of everlasting life; which is it that gives the efficacy to death. Without this men would be but desperate, and think that it is better have a little pleasure then none at all, and so would give up ⟨p. 103⟩themselves to sin, and desperately gratifie their flesh by all the wickedness they could devise. 3. And it is Christ that teacheth men the right use of death, by his holy doctrine, having brought life and immortality to light by his Gospel. 4. And it is Christ that sendeth forth the holy Spirit, which only doth so illuminate the mind, and quicken and dispose the heart, that Death may be savingly improved. The poyson is our own: but it is his skill and love that hath made a Soveraign antidote of it. And let our bodies die, so our sin may die. If the foresight of Death destroy our sin, and further our sanctification, and the hour of death doth end our fears and enter us into the state of glory, though we will love death as death never the better for this, much less the sin that caused it; yet must we admire the love of our Redeemer.