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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 8 › Section 2
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2. Yea, and many that have excelled in worldly wisdom, yet have been befooled in this great business: and they that had wit ⟨p. 417⟩to deceive their neighbours,1 were yet deceived by Satan and their own hearts. Yea, men of strongest head-pieces, and profoundest learning, who knew much of the secrets of Nature, of the courses of the Planets, and motions of the Spheres, have yet been utterly mistaken in their own hearts.
3. Yea, Those that have lived in the clear light of the Gospel, and heard the difference between the Righteous and the Wicked plainly laid open, and many a Mark for Trial laid down, and and many a Sermon pressing them to Examine, and directing them how to do it,1 yet even these have been, and daily are deceived.
3. Yea, Those that have lived in the clear light of the Gospel, and heard the difference between the Righteous and the Wicked plainly laid open, and many a Mark for Tryal laid down, and and many a Sermon pressing them to Examine, and directing them how to do it,1 yet even these have been, and dayly are deceived.