54587 SELECT PRACTICAL WRITINGS OF RICHARD BAXTER, WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. BY LEONARD BACON, PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN NEW HAVEN, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME II. FOURTH EDITION WITH ADDITIONS. NEW HAVEN: DURRIE & PECK. PHILADELPHIA: GEORGE W. GORTON. 1844. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, By DURRIE & PECK, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. Printed by J. H. Benham. Tappan Pres. Associn, [The reader of the "Dying Thoughts" may sometimes find himself perplexed, if not lost, 2. It is a substance formally differenced from lower substance, by the vir- tue of special vital activity, intellect, and free will,............. 3. It is not annihilated at death,...... 4. Nor destroyed by dissolution of parts,..... 5. Nor loseth its formal power or virtue,.. 6. Nor doth sleep or cease to act,.. 7. To cease to be individuate by union with any other common spirit, is IV. From man's capacity of knowing God, etc, as differenced from brutes,. 43 |