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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 3: DIRECTION III.
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DIRECTION III.
Live also by faith on the Heavenly Glory. As one eye of faith must be on an humbled crucified Christ, so must the other be on heaven, on a glorified Christ, and on the glory and everlasting Love of God, which we shall there en•oy. This is it that conquereth the fears of death, when we believe that we shall pass through it into everlasting life. If a man for health will take the most ungrateful potion, (the bitterness being short, and the benefit long;) and if he will suffer the Surgeon to let out his blood, and in case of necessity to out off a member; how light should we make of death, that have the assured hopes of glory to encourage ⟨p. 121⟩us! what door so straight that we would not pass through if we could, to our dearest friend! What way so •owl that we would not travail, to our beloved home? And shall death seem intolerable to us, that letteth in our souls to Christ? Well might Paul say [To die is gain,] Phil. 1.21. When we gain deliverance from all those sins that did here beset us, and all those sorrows that sin had bred: We gain the accomplishment of our desires, and the end of our faith, the salvation of our souls: We gain the Crown that fadeth not away; a place before the Throne of Christ, in the Temple of God, in the City of God, the New Jerusalem; to eat of the hidden Manna, and of the Tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God,