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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.
7. And I would not speak that in commendation of the living, which I do of the dead, who are out of ⟨p. 249⟩the reach of all temptations, of being lifted up with pride thereby: Unless it be such whose reputation the interest of Christ and the Gospel commandeth me to vindicate.
7. And I would not speak that in commendation of the living, which I do of the dead, who are out of ⟨p. 249⟩the reach of all temptations, of being lifted up with pride thereby: Ʋnless it be such whose reputation the interest of Christ and the Gospel commandeth me to vindicate.
8. Lastly, I am so far from lifting up one above the rest of the members of Christ, by these commendations, and from abasing others whose names I mention not, that I intend the honour of all in One, and think that in the substance I describe all Saints, in describing one. I am not about a Popish work, of making a wonder of a Saint, as of a Phoenix or some rare unusual thing. Saints with them must b• Canonized, and their names put in the Calendar: and yet their blind malice tells the world, that there are no such things as Saints among us. But I rejoice in the many that I have communion with, and the many that have lately stepped before me into Heaven, and are safe there out ⟨p. 250⟩of the reach of malice, and of sin, and all the enemies of their peace; and have left me mourning and yet rejoicing, fearing and yet hoping, and with some desires, looking after them here behind: And the faster Christ calls away his chosen ones, whose graces were amiable in mine eyes, the more willing he maketh me to follow them, and to leave this world of darkness, confusion, wickedness, danger, vanity and vexation, and to meet these precious souls in Life, where we shall rejoice that we are past this howling wilderness, and shall for ever be with the Lord.