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Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment…
Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment on 2 Cor. 5:10, 11 / by Rich. Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1672
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Quest. 2. Would you not gladly hear the news of your removal, if you might be changed without Death; and translated to heaven as Enoch and Elijah were, and as Christ at his Ascension? Had you not far rather be thus changed then abide on earth? If so, then it seems, it is not God and Heaven that you are against, but death. Nay if you could reach Heaven by travelling a thousand miles, would you not gladly take the journey as soon as you had got assurance of your title to it, and done the work of God on earth? If it were but a Peter, James and John, to go with Christ into an exceeding high Mountain, and there to see him in glory, (Mat. 17. 12.) would you not gladly do it? It seems that thou desirest to see the Lord, and thy love is to him, though thou be afraid of death.
Quest. 2. Would you not gladly hear the news of your removal, if you might be changed without Death; and translated to heaven as Henoch and Elias were, and as Christ at his Ascension? Had you not far rather be thus changed then abide on earth? If so, then it seems, it is not God and Heaven that you are against, but death. Nay if you could reach Heaven by travelling a thousand miles, would you not gladly take the journey as soon as you had got assurance of your title to it, and done the work of God on earth? If it were but a Peter, James and John, to go with Christ into an exceeding high Mountain, and there to see him in glory, (Mat. 17. 12.) would you not gladly do it? It seems that thou desirest to see the Lord, and thy love is to him, though thou be afraid of death.
Quest. 3. Consider of the Nature of the Heavenly felicity, and try whether thou love it in the several parts. One part is our ⟨p. 57⟩personal Perfection; that our souls shall be free from ignorance, and error, and sin, and sorrow, and enlarged for the perfect Love of God; and our bodies at the Resurrection, made like the glorious body of our Lord,