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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 5
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2. Having thus showed you what Examination is,1 and what Assurance is, I come to the second thing promised; To show you, That such an Infallible Certainty of Salvation may be attained, and ought to be laboured for, (though a Perfect Certainty cannot here be attained:) And that Examination is the means to attain it. In which I shall be the briefer, because many writers *against the Papists on this point have said enough already. Yet somewhat I will say, 1. because it is the common conceit of the Ignorant Vulgar, That an Infallible Certainty cannot be attained, 2. and many have taught and printed, That it is only the Testimony of the Spirit that can assure us; and that this proving our Justification by our Sanctification, and searching after Marks and Signs in our selves for the procuring of Assurance, is a dangerous and deceitful way. Thus we have the Papists, the Antinomians, and the ignorant Vulgar conspiring against this doctrine of Assurance and Examination. Which I maintain against them by these Arguments.
2. HAving thus shewed you what Examination is,1 and what Assurance is, I come to the second thing promised; To shew you, That such an Infallible Certainty of Salvation may be attained, and ought to be laboured for, (though a Perfect Certainty cannot here be attained:) And that Examination is the means to attain it. In which I shall be the briefer, because many writers *against the Papists on this point have said enough already. Yet somewhat I will say, 1. because it is the common conceit of the Ignorant Vulgar, That an Infallible Certainty cannot be attained, 2. and many have taught and printed, That it is only the Testimony of the Spirit that can assure us; and that this proving our Justification by our Sanctification, and searching after Marks and Signs in our selves for the procuring of Assurance, is a dangerous and deceitful way. Thus we have the Papists, the Antinomians, and the ignorant Vulgar conspiring against this doctrine of Assurance and Examination. Which I maintain against them by these Arguments.