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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 9: Use 9.Sermon › Section 9 › Application 9: Ʋse 9.
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FROM the Enmity of Death, and the necessity of a Conquest, we may see what a wonderful mercy the Resurrection of Christ himself was to the Church, and what use we should make of it for the strengthening of our faith. It was not only impossible to man to conquer death by his own strength, and therefore it must be conquered by Christ; but ⟨p. 200⟩it was also beyond our power to believe it, that ever the dead should rise to life, if Christ had not risen as the first fruits, and convinced man, by eye-sight, or certain testimony, that the thing is possible and already done. But now what a pillar is here for faith? What a word of Hope and Joy is this, that [Christ is risen?] With this we will answer a thousand Cavils of the tempter, and stop the mouth of the enemies of our faith, and profligate our infidelity. As unlikely as it seems to flesh and blood, shall we ever doubt whether we shall rise again, when the Lord came down in flesh among us, that he might die and rise again himself, to show us as to our faces that we shall rise? This is the very Gospel which we preach, and by which we must be saved; that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and ⟨p. 201⟩was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seem of Cephas, then of the twelve, and after that he was seen of above five hundred Brethren at once, of wh•m the greater part remained alive, when Paul wrote this, who was the last that saw him, 1 Cor. 15.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Read over this Chapter again and again, where our Resurrection is proved by the Resurrection of Christ.
FROM the Enmity of Death, and the necessity of a Conquest, we may see what a wonderfull mercy the Resurrection of Christ himself was to the Church, and what use we should make of it for the strengthening of our faith. It was not only impossible to man to conquer death by his own strength, and therefore it must be conquered by Christ; but ⟨p. 200⟩it was also beyond our power to believe it, that ever the dead should rise to life, if Christ had not risen as the first fruits, and convinced man, by eye-sight, or certain testimony, that the thing is possible and already done. But now what a pillar is here for faith? What a word of Hope and Joy is this, that [Christ is risen?] With this we will answer a thousand Cavils of the tempter, and stop the mouth of the enemies of our faith, and profligate our infidelity. As unlikely as it seems to flesh and blood, shall we ever doubt whether we shall rise again, when the Lord came down in flesh among us, that he might die and rise again himself, to shew us as to our faces that we shall rise? This is the very Gospel which we preach, and by which we must be saved; that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and