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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 9 › Application 7 › Direction 2: DIRECTION II.
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DIRECTION II.
TO Conquer the Enmity of Death, you must live by faith in Jesus Christ: as men that are emptied of themselves, and ransomed from his hands that had the power of death, and as men that are redeemed from the curse, and are now made heirs of the grace of life, being made his members who is •he Lord of life, even the second Adam, who is a quickening spirit. The serious believing study of his design and office, (to destroy sin and death, and to bring ⟨p. 117⟩many sons to glory,) and also of his voluntary suffering, and his obedience to the death of the Cross, may raise us above the fears of death. When we live by faith as branches of this blessed Vine, & are righteous with his righteousness, justified by his blood and merits, & sanctified by his Word and Spirit, and find that we are united to him, we may then be sure that death cannot conquer us, & nothing can take us out of his hands: For our life being hid with Christ in God, we know that we shall live, because he liveth, Col. 3.3. John 14.19. and that when Christ who is our life appeareth, we shall also appear with him in glory, Col. 3.4. And that he will change our vile bodies, and make them like to his glorious body, by his mighty power, by which he is able to subdue all things to himself, Phil. 3.20, 21. In our own strength we dare not stand ⟨p. 118⟩the charge of death, and with it the charge of the Law, and of our Consciences: How dreadfully should we then be foiled and non-plust, if we must be found in no other righteousness, but what we have received from the first Adam, and have wrought by the strength received from him! But being gathered under the wings of Christ, as the chickens under the wings of the hen (