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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 3
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SECT. III.
2. TO be mistaken in this great Point is also very Common,1 as well as easy: So common that it is the case of most in the world. In the old world we find of none that were in any fear of Judgement: and yet how few persons were not deceived? So in Sodom: So among the Jews: And I would it were not so in England! 2Almost all men amongst us do verily look to be saved: You shall scarce speak with one of a thousand that doth not: And yet Christ telleth us, That few find the strait gate and narrow way that leads to Life. Do but reckon up the several sorts of men that are mistaken in thinking they have title to Heaven,3 as the Scripture doth enumerate them, and what a multitude will they prove! 1. All that are ignorant of the Fundamentals of Religion. 2. All Heretic, who maintain false doctrines against the Foundation, or against the necessary means of Life. ⟨p. 418⟩3. All that live in the practice of gross sin. 44. Or that love and regard the smallest sin. 5. All that harden themselves against frequent reproof. Prov. 29.1. 6. All that mind the Flesh more then the Spirit.