A treatise of self-denial. By Richard Baxter, pastor of the church at KidderminsterA treatise of self-denial. By Richard Baxter, pastor of the church at Kederminster

Direct. 9. Dwell on the believing fore-thoughts of the everlasting glory which you must possess. Think what it is that others are enjoying while you are here; ⟨p. 282⟩and what you must be, and possess, and do for ever. Daily think of the Certainty, Perfection, and Perpetuity of your Blessedness. What a life it will be, to see the blessed God in his Glory, and taste of the fullness of his love, and to see the glorified Son of God, and with a perfected soul and body to be perfectly taken up in the Love, and Joy, and Praises of the Lord, among all his holy Saints and Angels, in the heavenly Jerusalem. You must by the exercise of Faith and Love, in holy Meditation and Prayer even dwell in the Spirit, and converse in Heaven, while your bodies are on earth, if you would entertain the news of death as beseems a Christian. But of this at large elsewhere.

Direct. 9. Dwell on the believing fore-thoughts of the everlasting glory which you must possess. Think what it is that others are enjoying while you are here; ⟨p. 282⟩and what you must be, and possess, and do for ever. Daily think of the Certainty, Perfection, and Perperuity of your Blessedness. What a life it will be, to see the blessed God in his Glory, and taste of the fulness of his love, and to see the glorified Son of God, and with a perfected soul and body to be perfectly taken up in the Love, and Joy, and Praises of the Lord, among all his holy Saints and Angels, in the heavenly Jerusalem. You must by the exercise of Faith and Love, in holy Meditation and Prayer even dwell in the Spirit, and converse in Heaven, while your bodies are on earth, if you would entertain the news of death as beseems a Christian. But of this at large elsewhere.

Direct. 10. Lastly, if you would be willing to submit to death, resign up your own understandings and wills to the wisdom and the will of God; and Know not good and evil for your carnal selves: but wholly trust your lives and souls to the Wisdom and Love of your dearest Lord. Must you be carking and caring for your selves when you have an Infinite God engaged to care for you? O saith self, I am not able to bear the terrors and pangs of death. O saith Faith, My Lord is easily able to support me, and it is his undertaken work to do it: My work is but to Please him; and it's his work to take care of me in life and death; and therefore though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, yet will I fear no evil. O saith Self, I am utterly a stranger to another world! I know not what I shall see, nor what I shall be, nor whither I shall go the next minute after death: None come from the dead to satisfy us of these things! O but saith Faith, My blessed Father and Redeemer is not a stranger to the place that I must go to! He knows it, though I do not! He knows what I shall