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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.
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Moreover this Enmity of Death may help us to understand the reason of the sufferings and Death of Christ. That he gave his life a Ransom for us, and a Sacrifice for sin, and so to make satisfaction to the offended Majesty, is a truth that every Christian doth believe. But there was another reason of his death, that all of us do not duly consider of, and improve to the promoting of our Sanctification as we ought. Death is so great an Enemy, as you have heard, and so powerful to deter our hearts from God, and dull our desires to the heavenly felicity, that Christ was fain to go before us, to embolden the ⟨p. 78⟩hearts of believers to follow him: He suffered Death (with the rest of his afflictions) to show us that it is a tolerable evil: Had he not gone before and overcome it, it would have detained us its Captives: Had he not merited and purchased us a blessed Resurrection, and opened heaven to all believers, and by Death overcome him that had the power of death (as Gods executioner) •hat is, the Devil, we should all our life time have been still subjected unto bondage by the fears of Death, Heb. 2.14. But when we see that Christ hath led the way, as the victorious Captain of our Salvation, and that he is made perfect by sufferings (in his advancement unto glory) and that for the sufferings of death (which by the grace of God he tasted for every man) he is crowned with glory ad honour,