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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.
Examine all these Texts of Scripture (for the matter is worthy of your study) and you will see what souls they are that Christ will then Receive, and what he will reject. You may see also what you must now be and do, if you will be then Received. If you are not regenerate by the Spirit of God, (though you may be Sacramentally regenerate in Baptism;) If you are not justified by Christ, (though you may be absolved by a Minister;) If If you seek not Heaven with higher estimation and resolutions that any felicity on earth, and take not God for your satisfying portion; (though you be never so Religious in subserviency to a fleshly worldly happiness;) If you Receive not Christ as your only Saviour, and set him not in the Throne and Government of your hearts and lives (though you may go with men for currant Christians;) If you hate not sin, if you love not the holy image, and children of God, and use them not accordingly; If you crucify not the flesh, and die not to the ⟨p. 29⟩world, and deny not your selves, and live not unto God, as making it your chief business and happiness to please him: I say, if this be not your case, as sure as you are men, if you died this hour in this condition, Christ will not own you, but turn you off with a [Depart ye cursed:] You may as well think of reconciling light and darkness, or persuade a man to live on the food of beasts, or the stomach to welcome deadly poison, as to think that Christ will receive an ungodly, earthly, guilty soul.
Examine all these Texts of Scripture (for the matter is worthy of your study) and you will see what souls they are that Christ will then Receive, and what he will reject. You may see also what you must now be and do, if you will be then Received. If you are not regenerate by the Spirit of God, (though you may be Sacramentally regenerate in Baptism;) If you are not justified by Christ, (though you may be absolved by a Minister;) If If you seek not Heaven with higher estimation and resolutions that any felicity on earth, and take not God for your satisfying portion; (though you be never so Religious in subserviency to a fleshly worldly happiness;) If you Receive not Christ as your only Saviour, and set him not in the Throne and Government of your hearts and lives (though you may go with men for currant Christians;) If you hate not sin, if you love not the holy image, and children of God, and use them not accordingly; If you crucifie not the flesh, and die not to the ⟨p. 29⟩