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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.
2. And it is not only to the Body, but to the Soul also that Death is naturally an Enemy. The Soul hath naturally a Love and Inclination to its Body: and therefore it feareth a separation before, and desireth a Restoration afterward. Abstracting Joy and Torment, Heaven and Hell, in our consideration, the state of Separation as such, is a natural evil: even to the humane Soul of Christ it was so, while his Body remained in the grave: which separated state is the Hades, that our English calleth Hell, that Christ is said to have gone into. And though (the Soul of Christ, and) the souls of those ⟨p. 12⟩that die in him, do pass into a far more happy state, then they had in flesh, yet that is accidentally, from Rewarding Justice, and the Bounty of the Lord, and not at all from Death as Death: the separation as such is still an evil. And therefore the Soul is still desirous of the Bodies Resurrection; and knoweth that its felicity will then be greater, when the re-union, and glorification hath perfected the whole man. So that Death as Death is unwelcome to the soul it self, though Death as accidentally gainful may be desired.
2. And it is not only to the Body, but to the Soul also that Death is naturally an Enemy. The Soul hath naturally a Love and Inclination to its Body: and therefore it feareth a separation before, and desireth a Restauration afterward. Abstracting Joy and Torment, Heaven and Hell, in our consideration, the state of Separation as such, is a natural evil: even to the humane Soul of Christ it was so, while his Body remained in the grave: which separated state is the Hades, that our English calleth Hell, that Christ is said to have gone into. And though (the Soul of Christ, and) the souls of those ⟨p. 12⟩that die in him, do pass into a far more happy state, then they had in flesh, yet that is accidentally, from Rewarding Justice, and the Bounty of the Lord, and not at all from Death as Death: the separation as such is still an evil. And therefore the Soul is still desirous of the Bodies Resurrection; and knoweth that its felicity will then be greater, when the re-union, and glorification hath perfected the whole man. So that Death as Death is unwelcome to the soul it self, though Death as accidentally gainfull may be desired.