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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.
DEATH is the occasion of this days meeting: and Death must be the Subject of our present meditations. I must speak of that which will shortly silence me; and you must hear of that which speedily will stop your ears: and we must spend this hour on that which waits to cut our thread, and take down our glass, and end our time, and tell us we have spent our last▪ But as it hath now done good by ⟨p. 2⟩doing hurt; so are we co consider, of the accidental benefits, as well as of the natural evil, from which the heavenly wisdom doth extract them. Death hath now bereaved a Body of its Soul; but thereby it hath sent that Soul to Christ; where it hath now experience how good it is to be absent from the body and present with the Lord, 2 Cor. 5.8. It hath separated a faithful wife from a beloved husband: but it hath sent her to a husband dearlyer beloved; and taught her now by experience to say, that to be with Christ is best of all, Phil 1.23. It hath deprived a sorrowful husband of a wife, and deprived us all of a faithful friend: but it hath thereby brought us to the house of mourning, which is better for us then the house of feasting, (a Paradox to the flesh, but an undoubted truth:) for h•re we may see the end of all men, ⟨p. 3⟩and we that are yet living may lay it to our hearts, Eccl. 7.2, 3. Yea it hath brought us to the house of God, and occasioned this serious address unto his Holiness, that we may be instructed by his Word, as we are warned by his works, and that we may be wise to understand, and to consider our latter end, Deut. 32.29.
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