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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
Sermon › Section 3 › Application 1: Use 1.Sermon › Section 3 › Application 1: Ʋse 1.
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Use 1.
Ʋse 1.
I Now come to show you the Usefulness of this Doctrine for the further Information of our understandings, the well ordering of our hearts, and the reforming of our lives. And first, you may hence be easily resolved, Whether Death be truly penal to the godly? which some have been pleased to make • Controversy of late: though I am past doubt; but the hearts of those men do apprehend it as a punishment, whose tongues and pens do plead for the contrary. Dust thou ⟨p. 64⟩art, and to dust shalt thou return, was part of the sentence past on Adam and all his posterity; which then proved it a punishment, and it was not remitted to Adam, that at the same time had the promise of a Redeemer, nor is it remitted to any of us all. Were it not for sin, God would not inflict it; who hath sworn that he takes no pleasure in the death of sinners; And that he afflicts not willingly, nor grieves the sons of men. But my text it self decides the Controversy: Sin and punishment are the evils that Christ removeth; And if death were no punishment (as it is no sin,) how could it be an Enemy, and the last enemy to be destroyed by the Redeemer? when we feel the Enmity before described against our souls, and also know its Enmity to our bodies, we cannot think that God would do all this, were it not for sin: especially ⟨p. 65⟩when we read, that death passeth upon all, for that all have sinned,