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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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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.
1. That which Christ calls here [that good part] is 1. Principally, the end of man, or our everlasting Happiness with God in Heaven. 2. Subordinately, the Means by which it is attained. 3. That Happiness which is the end, comprehendeth in it these particulars, which if you distinctly apprehend, you will much the better understand the nature and excellency of it.
1. The true Believer hath the small beginnings, and earnests, and foretastes of the Everlasting Blessedness in this Life, in his approaches to God, and living upon him by Faith and Love, and •• his believing apprehensions of the Favour of God, the Grace •• ⟨p. 109⟩Christ, and the Happiness which in Heaven he shall enjoy for ever.
2. At death, the souls of true Believers do go to Christ, and enter upon a state of Happiness.
3. At the last day, the body shall be raised and united to the soul, and the Lord Jesus Christ will come in glory to judge the world, where he will openly absolve and justify the Righteous, when he condemneth the ungodly, and will be glorified in his Saints, and admired in all them that do believe, and the Saints shall also judge the world, and be themselves adjudged to everlasting Glory.