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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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14. In all this Blessedness and Glory of the Saints, the Glory of God himself will shine, and Angels shall admire it, and the condemned spirits with anguish shall discern it, that God may be Glorified in our Glory.
15. In all this Happiness of Believers, and his own Glory, the Lord will be well pleased, and that Blessed Will which is the Beginning and the End of all, will be accomplished, and will have an Eternal complacency, as the Saints shall have an endless complacency in God.
This is the Glory promised to the Saints; This is that Good part which they choose. I cite not the Texts of Scripture that prove all this, because the things are all so plainly and frequently expressed in the premises. And I shall have occasion to do somewhat of this anon. And so (in brief) I have told you what the Good part is.
2. We are next to enquire, What it is that is put by worldly▪ carnal men, into the other end of the scales, and is set up in comparison with all this Everlasting Glory? Yea what it is that is preferred by ungodly men before it? What is it that fin and the world will do for men? What do they find that lose the Lord? What do they get that miss of Heaven? What do they choose, t refuse the Needful, Better part?