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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.
4. And thus the dismal face of Death, doth hinder the heavenliness of our Conversation. ⟨p. 14⟩Our Thoughts will be diverted, when our complacency and desire is abated: Our minds be willinger to grow strange to Heaven, when Death still mingleth terror in our meditations: Whereas if we could have come to God in the way that was first appointed us, and could be clothed with glory, without being stripped of our present clothing, by this terrible hand, how familiarly should we then converse above? How readily would our Thoughts run out to Christ? Meditation of that glory would not be then so hard a work: Our hearts would not be so backward to it, as now they are.
4. And thus the dismal face of Death, doth hinder the heavenlinesse of our Conversation. ⟨p. 14⟩Our Thoughts will be diverted, when our complacency and desire is abated: Our minds be willinger to grow strange to Heaven, when Death still mingleth terrour in our meditations: Whereas if we could have come to God in the way that was first appointed us, and could be cloathed with glory, without being stript of our present cloathing, by this terrible hand, how familiarly should we then converse above? How readily would our Thoughts run out to Christ? Meditation of that glory would not be then so hard a work: Our hearts would not be so backward to it, as now they are.
5. Faith is much hindered, and Infidelity much advantaged by Death: Look either to the state of soul or body, and you will easily perceive the truth of this. The state of a Soul incorporated, we know by long experience: what kind of apprehensions, volitions, and affections belong to a soul while it acteth in the Body, we feel or understand: But what manner of Knowledge, Will, or Love; what Joy, what sorrow, belong to souls that are separated from the Bodies, it is not possible for us now distinctly and formally to conceive. And when men find themselves at a loss about the manner, they are tempted to doubt of the thing it self. The swarms of irreligious Infidels, ⟨p. 15⟩