1QO BAXTER'S DYING THOUGHTS. much that was not sound was mixed ; and what was of myself and sin. I shall know much more of my sins than here I ever knew, the number and the greatness of them; that so I may know, with greatest thankfulness and love, how much I am beholden,to par- doning and healing grace. Yea, I shall know more of my body, as. it was the habitation of my soul, or the organical matter on which unitedly it worked. I shall know how far it helped or hindered me; and what were all those obscure diseases, that puzzled all the physicians and myself; and how marvelously God sustained, preserved, and oft delivered me ; and what of my actions was to be imputed to the body, and what of them to the soul. 9. And every fellow-creature, which I ain concerned to know, I shall know far better than now I do, both things and persons: the good and bad, the sincere and the hypocrites, will be there discerned; and many an action that here went for honorable, cov- ered or colored with wit or worldly advantages, or false pretenses, will then be found to be odious and unjust ; and wickedness will be flattered or extenuated no more; and many a good and holy work which false men, .through wickedness and worldly interest, re- proached as some odious crime, will there be justified, honored, and rewarded. All sciences are there perfect, without our ambig- uous terms, or imperfect axioms, and rules of art. 10. And lastly, I shall better know from what enemies,what sins, what dangers, I was here delivered ; what contrivances, and malicious endeavors of Satan and his instruments - God defeat- ed; how many snares I escaped: and I shall better know how great my deliverance is by Christ from the wrath to come. Though we shall not know hell by painful sense, we shall know it so far as is necessary to fill us with gratitude to our Redeemer: yea, we shall know much of it far better than the damned spirits that feel it ; for we shall know, by sweet and full fruition, what the joy and blessedness is which they have lost; when they have no such kind of knowledge. All this knowledge will be thus advanced to my glorified soul beyond what I can here conceive in flesh : and is it not then far better to be with Christ ? IV. The Constitutive Reasons from the State of my Will. But it is the will that is to the soul what the heart is to the body : 'as it is the prime seat of morality, so is it the chief seat of felicity. My greatest evil is there; and my' greatest subjective
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