Preaching as a Dying Man to Dying Men

From Baxter's Poetical Fragments:

               A life still near to Death, did me possess
               With a deep sense of Time's great preciousness;

so that

               I Preach'd, as never sure to Preach again,
               And as a dying man to dying men.

—Culled from J. I. Packer, Honoring the People of God: Collected Shorter Writings on Christian Leaders and Theologians (Vancoover: Regent College Publishing, 1999), 266.