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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.
If the Love of David could carry Jonathan to hazard his life and deny a Kingdom for him, and the Love of David to Absalom made him wish that he had dyed for him, and the Love of friends, (yea lustful love) hath carried many to cast away their lives; no wonder if the Love of God in his Saints prevail against the fear of death. The power of holy Love made Moses say, Else let my name be blotted out of the book of life. And it made Paul say, that he could wish that he were ⟨p. 49⟩accursed from Christ, for his brethren and kindred according to the flesh.] Rom. 9.3. And doubtless he felt the fire burning in his breast, when he broke out into that triumphant challenge, Rom. 8.35, 36. to the end [Who shall separate us from the love of God? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as Sheep to the slaughter.) Nay in all this we are more then Conquerors through him that loved us: For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other Creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God; which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.] You see here what it is that conquereth the enmity of ⟨p. 50⟩death, in our sanctification; even that powerful love of God that is then given us, which will go to him through the most cruel death.
If the Love of David could carry Jonathan to hazzard his life and deny a Kingdom for him, and the Love of David to Absalom made him wish that he had dyed for him, and the Love of friends, (yea lustfull love) hath carryed many to cast away their lives; no wonder if the Love of God in his Saints prevail against the fear of death. The power of holy Love made Moses say, Else let my name be blotted out of the book of life. And it made Paul say, that he could wish that he were ⟨p. 49⟩accursed from Christ, for his brethren and kindred according to the flesh.]