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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.
1. The Beginning of the Conquest is in this world: 2. The Perfection will not be till the day of Resurrection, when this Last Enemy shall be destroyed.
1. Meritoriously Death is conquered by Death. The Death of sinners, by the Mediators Death. Not that he intended in his Meritorious work, to save us from the stroke of death by a prevention, but to deliver us from it after by a Resurrection. For since by man came death, by man also came the Resurrection from the dead, 1 Cor. 15. 21. For as much as the children were ⟨p. 24⟩partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part with them, that he might destroy him through death, that had the power of death, that is, the Devil; and deliver them, who through fear of death were all their life time subject unto bondage, Heb. 2. 14, 15. Satan as Gods Executioner, and as the prosperous tempter, is said to have had the power of death: The fears of this dreadful Executioner, are a continual bondage, which we are liable to through all our lives, till we perceive the deliverance which the Death of the Lord of Life hath purchased us. 1. By Death Christ hath satisfied the Justice that was armed by sin against us. 2. By Death he hath showed us, that Death is a tolerable Evil, and to be yielded to in hope of following life.
1. Meritoriously Death is conquered by Death. The Death of sinners, by the Mediators Death. Not that he intended in his Meritorious work, to save us from the stroke of death by a prevention, but to deliver us from it after by a Resurrection. For since by man came death, by man also came the Resurrection from the dead, 1 Cor. 15. 21. For as much as the children were ⟨p. 24⟩partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part with them, that he might destroy him through death, that had the power of death, that is, the Devil; and deliver them, who through fear of death were all their life time subject unto bondage,