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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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7. Our Reason or Discourse is Necessary to form the Argument, and raise the Conclusion from the Premises; and to compare our Acts with the Rule, and Judg of their Sincerity, &c.
*So that you see our Assurance is not an Effect of any one single Cause alone. And so neither merely of Faith, by Signs, or by the Spirit.
*So that you see our Assurance is not an Effect of any one single Cause alone. And so neither meerly of Faith, by Signs, or by the Spirit.
- *Therefore that saying of Cajetane is not so much to be valued as by some of our Divines it is. Certitudine fidei quilibet scit certo see habere donum infusum fidei, idque absque formidine alterius partis. Except he take Certitudo fidei in a very large improper sense.Therefore that saying of Cajetane is not so much to be valued as by some of our Divines it is. Certitudine fidei quilibet scit certo se habere donum infusum fidei, idque absque formidine alterius partis. Except he take Certitudo fidei in a very large improper sence.
From all this you may gather, 1. *What the Seal of the Spirit is, to wit, the Works or fruits of the Spirit in us; 2. What the testimony of the Spirit is, (for if it be not some of the forementioned Acts, I yet know it not:) 3. What the Testimony of Conscience is.