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The Saints' Everlasting Rest
The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is showed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by Rob. White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, 1650
THE SAINTS Everlasting REST. PART. III. › Chapter 7 › Section 4
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SECT. IV.
1Thus you see what Examination is, Now let us see what this Certainty, or Assurance is. And indeed, It is nothing else but the Knowledge of the forementioned Conclusions (that we are Sanctified,2 Justified, shall be Glorified) as they arise from the premises in the work of Examination.
1THus you see what Examination is, Now let us see what this Certainty, or Assurance is. And indeed, It is nothing else but the Knowledg of the forementioned Conclusions (that we are Sanctified,2 Justified, shall be Glorified) as they arise from the premises in the work of Examination.
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- 2Assurance what.
So that here you may observe, how immediately this Assurance followeth the Conclusion in Examination; and so how necessary Examination is to the obtaining of Assurance, and how conducible thereunto.