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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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2. The Part which the Scripture hath in this Work is, 1. It affordeth us the Major Proposition, [That whosoever Believeth Sincerely shall be saved.] 2. It is the Rule by which our Acts must be tried, that we may Judg of their Moral Truth.
2. The Part which the Scripture hath in this Work is, 1. It affordeth us the Major Proposition, [That whosoever Believeth Sincerely shall be saved.] 2. It is the Rule by which our Acts must be tryed, that we may Judg of their Moral Truth.
3. The Part that Knowledge hath in it, is to Know that the foresaid Proposition is written in Scripture.
3. The Part that Knowledg hath in it, is to Know that the foresaid Proposition is written in Scripture.
4. The Work of Faith is to Believe the Truth of that Scripture, and to be the matter of one of our chief Evidences.
5. Our Holiness, and true Faith, as they are Marks and Evidences, are the very Medium of our Argument, from which we Conclude.