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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.
1. Meritoriously Death is conquered by Death. The Death of sinners, by the Mediators Death. Not that he intended in his Meritorious ⟨p. 36⟩work, to save us from the stroke of death by a prevention; but to deliver us from it after by a Resurrection. For since by man came death, by man also came the Resurrection from the dead, I Cor. 15.21. Forasmuch as the children were partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part with them; that he might destroy him through death, that had the power of death, that is the Devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life time subject unto bondage, Heb. 2.14, 15. Satan as Gods Executioner, and as the prosperous tempter, is said to have had the power of death: The fears of this dreadful Executioner are a continual bondage, which we are liable to through all our lives, till we perceive the deliverance Which the Death of the Lord of Life hath purchased us. 1. By Death Christ hath satisfied the Justice that was ⟨p. 37⟩armed by sin against us. 2. By Death he hath showed us, that Death is a tolerable Evil, and to be yielded to in hope of following life.
1. Meritoriously Death is conquered by Death. The Death of sinners, by the Mediators Death. Not that he intended in his Meritorious ⟨p. 36⟩work, to save us from the stroke of death by a prevention; but to deliver us from it after by a Resurrection. For since by man came death, by man also came the Resurrection from the dead, I Cor. 15.21. Forasmuch as the children were partakers of flesh and blood, he also hims•lf likewise took part with them; that he might destroy him through death, that had the power of death, that is the Devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life time subject unto bondage,