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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
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6. It will overwhelm the Soul, if Christ receive it not, to see that then art entering upon Eternity, even into an everlasting state of Woe. Then thou wilt think, O whither am I going? What must I endure? ⟨p. 34⟩And how long! How long! When shall my misery have an end! and When shall I come back! and How shall I ever be delivered! O now what thoughts wilt thou have of the wonderful Design of God in Man's Redemption! Now thou wilt better understand what a Saviour was worth, and how he should have been believed in, and how his Gospel and his saving Grace should have been entertained.
6. It will overwhelm the Soul, if Christ receive it not, to see that then art entring upon Eternity, even into an everlasting state of Woe. Then thou wilt think, O whither am I going? What must I endure? ⟨p. 34⟩And how long! How long! When shall my misery have an end! and When shall I come back! and How shall I ever be delivered! O now what thoughts wilt thou have of the wonderful Design of God in Man's Redemption! Now thou wilt better understand what a Saviour was worth, and how he should have been believed in, and how his Gospel and his saving Grace should have been entertained.
O that the Lord would now open your hearts to entertain it, that you may not then value it to your vexation, that would not value it now to your relief! Poor sinner, for the Lord's sake, and for thy Souls sake, I beg now of thee, as if it were on my knees, that thou wouldst cast away thy sinful Cares and Pleasures, and open thy Heart, and now receive thy Saviour and his saving Grace, as ever thou wouldst have him then receive thy trembling departed Soul! Turn to him now, that he may not turn thee from him then: Forsake him not for a flattering World, a little transitory vain Delight, as ever thou wouldst not then have thy departed Soul forsaken by him! O delay not, Man; but now, even now receive him, that thou mayest avoid so terrible a danger, and put so great a question presently out of doubt, and be able comfortably to say, [I have received Christ, and he will receive me; if I die this night, he will receive me.] Then thou mayest sleep quietly, and live merrily, without any disparagement to thy Reason. O yield to this Request, Sinner, of one that desireth thy Salvation. If thou wert now departing, and