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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
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.
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.
- *Read Gataker, Shadows without Substances. pag. 83, 84.
And (if I be not mistaken) the Testimony of the Spirit, and the Testimony of Conscience are two concurrent Testimonies or Causes, to produce one and the same Effect, and to afford the Premises to the same Conclusion, and then to raise our Joy thereupon. So that they may well be said to Witness Together. Not one laying down the entire Conclusion of it self, [That we are the Children ⟨p. 392⟩of God,] and then the other attesting the same entirely again of it self: But as concurrent Causes to the same Numerical Conclusion.
And (if I be not mistaken) the Testimony of the Spirit, and the Testimony of Conscience are two concurrent Testimonies or Causes, to produce one and the same Effect, and to afford the Premises to the same Conclusion, and then to raise our Joy thereupon. So that they may well be said to Witness Together. Not one laying down the intire Conclusion of it self, [That we are the Children ⟨p. 392⟩of God,] and then the other attesting the same entirely again of it self: But as concurrent Causes to the same Numerical Conclusion.