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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.
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.
But this with Submission to better Judgments, and further Search.
By this also you may see that the *common distinction of Certainty of Adherence, and Certainty of Evidence, must be taken with a grain or two of salt. For there is no Certainty without Evidence, no more then there is a Conclusion without a Medium ▪ A small degree of Certainty, hath some small glimpse of Evidence. Indeed 1. the Assent to the truth of the promise, 2. and the Acceptation of Christ offered with his benefits, are both before and without any sight or consideration of Evidence; and are themselves our best Evidence,