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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.
Its like you'll think that to tell men of the evil or enmity of Death, is as needless a discourse as any could be chosen: For who is there that is not naturally too sensible of this? and who doth not dread the name, or at least the face of Death? But there is accidentally a greater evil in it, then that which nature teacheth men to fear: And while it is the King of terrors to the world, the most are ignorant of the greatest hurt that it doth them, or can do them; or at least it is but little thought ⟨p. 4⟩on; which hath made me think it a needful work, to tell you yet of much more evil, in that which you abhor as the greatest evil: But so as withal to magnify our Redeemer, that overshooteth death in its own bow; and causeth it, when it hits the mark, to miss it: and that causeth health by loathsome medicines; and by the dung of our bodily corruption manureth his Church to the greater felicity.
Its like you'l think that to tell men of the evil or enmity of Death, is as needless a •iscourse as any could be chosen: For who is there that is not naturally too sensible of this? and who doth not dread the name, or at least the face of Death? But there is accidentally a greater evil in it, then that which nature teacheth men to fear: And while it is the King of terrors to the world, the most are ignorant of the great•st hurt that it doth them, or can do them; or at least it is but little thought ⟨p. 4⟩on; which hath made me think it a needfull work, to tell you yet of much more evil, in that which you abhor as the greatest evil: But so as withall to magnifie our Redeemer, that overshooteth death in its own bow; and causeth it, when it hits the mark, to miss it: and that causeth health by loathsome medicines; and by the dung of our bodily corruption manureth his Church to the greater felicity.
Such excellent skill of our wise Physician, we find expressed and exercised in this Chapter: where an unhappy error against the Resurrection, hath happily occasioned an excellent discourse on that weighty Subject, which may stablish many a thousand souls, and serve to shame and destroy such heresies, ill the Resurrection come, and prove it self. The great Argument which the Apostle most insisteth