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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 10: Use 10.Sermon › Section 9 › Application 10: Ʋse 10.
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Up then my soul, and shake off thy unbelief and dullness; Look up, and long, and meet thy Lord. The more thou art afraid of death, the more desire that blessed day, when mortality shall be swallowed up of life, and the name of death shall be terrible no more. Though death be thy enemy, there is nothing but friendly in the coming of thy Lord. Though death dissolve thy nature, the Resurrection shall restore it, and make thee full reparation with advantage.
Up then my soul, and shake off thy unbelief and dulness; Look up, and long, and meet thy Lord. The more thou art afraid of death, the more desire that blessed day, when mortality shall be swallowed up of life, and the name of death shall be terrible no more. Though death be thy enemy, there is nothing but friendly in the coming of thy Lord. Though death dissolve thy nature, the Resurrection shall restore it, and make thee full reparation with advantage.
How glad would I have been to have seen Christ, but with the Wise Men in the Manger! or to have seen him disputing with the Doctors in his Child-hood in the Temple, or to have seen him do his Miracles, or heard him Preach; much more to have seen him as the three Disciples, in his transfiguration; or to have seen him after his resurrection, and when he ⟨p. 221⟩ascended up to heaven. But how far is all this below the sight that we shall have of him when he comes in glory! when the brightness of his shining face shall make us think the Sun was darkness: and the glory of his attendance shall make us think what a sordid thing, and childish foolery was all the glory of this world! The face of Love shall be then unveiled, and ravish us into the highest Love and Joy, that our natures are capable of. Then doubt, and fear, and grieve if thou canst! What then wilt thou think of all these disquieting distrustful thoughts that now so wrong thy Lord and thee? If going into the Sanctuary, and fore-seeing the end, can cure our brutish misapprehensions of Gods providences, (Psal. 73.17.) how perfectly will they be cured, when we see the glorious face o Christ, and behold the New Jerusalem in