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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 this should not satisfy any, let it satisfy them, that the Holy Ghost in the instant of death can perfect his work.
If this should not satisfie any, let it satisfie them, that the Holy Ghost in the instant of death can perfect his work.
So that we need not assert a perfection on earth, (which on their grounds, must be the case of all that will escape Hell and Purgatory;) nor yet any Purgatory torments after death, for the deliverance of the soul from the relicts of sin; seeing at the instant ⟨p. 60⟩of death, by the the spirit, or by the deposition of the flesh, or by the sight of God, or by the sight of our glorified Redeemer, or by all, this work will be easily and infallibly accomplished.
5. The last degree and perfect conquest will be at the Resurrection. And this is the victory that is mentioned in my Text. All that is fore-mentioned doth abate the enmity, and conquer death in some degree: But the enmity, and the enemy it self is conquered at the Resurrection, and not till then. And therefore Death is the last enemy to be destroyed. The Body lieth under the penal effects of sin, till the Resurrection. And it is penal to the soul to be in a state of separation from the Body, though it be a state of glory that its in with Christ: For it is deprived of the fullness of glory, which it shall attain at the Resurrection, ⟨p. 61⟩when the whole man shall be perfected and glorified together. Then it is that the Mediators work will be accomplished; and all things shall be restored; All that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come forth,