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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.
2. A second Antidote against the Enmity of Death, that is given us at the time of our Conversion, is, The Pardon of our sins, and Justification of our persons, by the blood and merits of Jesus Christ. When once we are forgiven, we are out of the reach of the greatest terror, being saved from the second death, Though we must feel the killing stroke, we are delivered from the damning stroke. Yea more than so, it shall save us by destroying us: It shall let us ⟨p. 29⟩into the glorious presence of our Lord, by taking us from the presence of our mortal friends: It shall help us into Eternity, by cutting off our Time. For in the hour that we were justified, and made the Adopted Sons of God, we were also made the Heirs of Heaven, even Coheirs with Christ, and shall be glorified with him, when we have suffered with him, Rom. 8. 17. As Death was promoting the Life of the world, when it was killing the Lord of Life himself: So is it hastening the deliverance of believers, when it seems to be undoing them. No wonder if Death be that mans terror, that must be conveyed by it into Hell, or that imagineth that he shall perish as the beast: But to him that knows, it will be his passage into Rest; and that Angels shall convey his Soul to Christ, what an Antidote is there ready for his Faith to use against the enmity and excess of fears? Hence faith proceedeth in its triumph, 1 Cor. 15. 56, 57. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law: But thanks be to God that giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Let him inordinately fear Death, that is loth to be with Christ, or that is yet the heir of Death eternal: Let him fear that is yet in the bondage of his sin, and in the power of the Prince of darkness, and is not by Justification delivered from the ⟨p. 30⟩curse: But joy and holy triumph are more seemly for the Justified.
2. A second Antidote against the Enmity of Death, that is given us at the time of our Conversion, is, The Pardon of our sins, and Justification of our persons, by the blood and merits of Jesus Christ. When once we are forgiven, we are out of the reach of the greatest terrour, being saved from the second death, Though we must feel the killing stroke, we are delivered from the damning stroke. Yea more than so, it shall save us by destroying us: It shall let us