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The last work of a believer his passing prayer recommending his departing spirit to…
The last work of a believer his passing prayer recommending his departing spirit to Christ to be received by Him / prepared for the funerals of Mary the widow first of Francis Charlton Esq. and after of Thomas Hanmer, Esq., and partly preached at St. Mary Magdalens Church in Milk-Street, London, and now, at the desire of her daughter, reprinted by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by B. Griffin for B. Simmons, 1682
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.
Say therefore with our dying Lord, [Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit: By thy Son who is the way, the truth and the life, I come to thee, (Joh. 14. 6.) Fullness of joy is in thy presence, and everlasting pleasures at thy right hand (Psalm. 16. 11.) Thy love redeemed me, renewed and preserved me: O now receive me to the fullness of thy Love: This was thy will in sending thy Son, that of all that thou gavest him he should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. O let not now this Soul be lost that is passing to thee through the straits of death! I had never come unto thy Son, if thou hadst not drawn me; and if I had not heard and learnt of thee, John 6, 44, 45. I thank thee O Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, that thou hast revealed to me a babe, an idiot, the blessed mysteries of thy Kingdom: ⟨p. 56⟩(Luk. 10. 21. Acts 4 13.) O now as the veil of flesh must be withdrawn, and my soul be parted from this body, withdraw the veil of thy displeasure, and show thy servant the glory of thy presence: that he that hath seen thee but as in a glass, may see thee now with open face: and when my earthly house of this Tabernacle is dissolved, let me inhabit thy building not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, 2 Cor. 5. 1.
Say therefore with our dying Lord, [Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit: By thy Son who is the way, the truth and the life, I come to thee, (Joh. 14. 6.) Fulness of joy is in thy presence, and everlasting pleasures at thy right hand (Psalm. 16. 11.) Thy love redeemed me, renewed and preserved me: O now receive me to the fulness of thy Love: This was thy will in sending thy Son, that of all that thou gavest him he should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. O let not now this Soul be lost that is passing to thee through the straits of death! I had never come unto thy Son, if thou hadst not drawn me; and if I had not heard and learnt of thee,