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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
At last came that death to summon her soul away to Christ, for which she had so seriously been preparing, and which she oft called a dark entry to her Fathers Palace. After the death of her children, when she seemed to be some what repaired after her last delivery, a violent Convulsion suddenly surprised her, which in a few days brought her to her end. Her understanding by the fits being at last debilitated, she finding it somewhat hard to speak sensibly, excused it, and said, [I shall ere long speak another language,] Which were the last words which she spake with a tongue of flesh, and lying speechless eighteen hours after, she departed, August 17. 1659. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, from henceforth, yea saith the spirit, that they may rest from ⟨p. 245⟩their labours and their works do follow them.
At last came that death to summon her soul away to Christ, for which she had so seriously been preparing, and which she oft called a dark entry to her Fathers Palace. After the death of her children, when she seemed to be some what repaired after her last delivery, a violent Convulsion suddenly surprized her, which in a few dayes brought her to her end. Her understanding by the fits being at last debilitated, she finding it somewhat hard to speak sensibly, excused it, and said, [I shall ere long speak another language,] Which were the last words which she spake with a tongue of flesh, and lying speechless eighteen hours after, she departed, August 17. 1659. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, from henceforth, yea saith the spirit, that they may rest from ⟨p. 245⟩their labours and their works do follow them.
Our turn is coming: Shortly we shall also lay by flesh: this is our day of preparation: There is no preparing time but this. Did men but know the difference between the death of the holy and the unholy, which doth not appear to fleshly eyes, how speedily would they turn? how seriously would they meditate? how fervently would they pray? how carefully would they live? how constantly, painfully and resolvedly would they labour? Did they well consider the difference between dying prepared and unprepared, and of what difficulty and yet everlasting consequence it is to die well; O then what manner of persons would men be, in all manner of holy conversation and godliness? and all their lives would then be a continued preparation for death; as all their