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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.
The CONTENTS.
THE Introduction p. 1. What is meant by [an Enemy] and how Death is an Enemy to Nature, p. 4, 5. How Death is an Enemy to Grace, and to our salvation: discovered in ten particulars, p. 10. How Christ conquereth this Enemy, p. 23. Four Antidotes given us against the Enmity of Death, at our Conversion, p. 26. How Death is made a destruction of it self, p. 36. The full destruction at the Resurrection, p. 39. The first Use to resolve the doubt, Whether Death be a punishment to Believers, p. 41. Use 2. To show us the malignity of sin, and how we should esteem and use it, p. 43. Use 3. To teach us that man hath now a need of Grace for difficulties, which were not before him in his state of innocency, p. 47 Use 4. To inform us of the Reasons of the sufferings and death of Christ, p. 50. Use 5. To rectify the mistakes of some true Believers, that think they have no saving Grace, because the fears of Death debtor them from desiring to be with Christ, p. 53. Use 6. To teach us to study and magnify our Redeemers conquering Grace, that overcometh Death, and makes it our advantage p. 62. Use 7. To direct us how to prepare for Death, ⟨image 20⟩and overcome the enmity, and fear of it▪ p. 71 Direct. 1. Make sure that Conversion be sound, p. 74. Direct. 2. Live by faith on Christ the Conqueror, p. 75 Direct. 3. Live also by faith on the Heavenly Glory, p. 77. Direct. 4. Labour to increase and exercise Divine Love▪ p. 80. Direct. 5. Keep conscience clear, or if it be wounded, presently seek the cure, p. 82. Direct. 6. Redeem and improve your precious time, p. 84. Direct. 7. Crucify the flesh, and die to the world, p. 85. Direct. 8. A conformity to God in the hatred of sin, and love of holiness: and especially in the point of justice p. 87. Direct. 9. The due consideration of the restlessness, and troubles of this life, and of the manifold evils that end at Death, p. 89. Direct. 10. Resign your wills entirely to the will of God, and acquiesce in it, as your safety, felicity, and Rest p. 103. Use 8. Great comfort to Believers, that they have no enemy but what they are sure shall be conquered at last, p. 106. Object. But what comfort is all this to me that know not whether I have part in Christ or no? Answered, to satisfy the