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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 8
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SECT. VIII.
17. Lastly, I desire thee to Consider, What would be the sweet effects of this Examining. If thou be upright and Godly, it will lead thee straight toward Assurance of Gods Love: If thou be not, though it will trouble thee at the present, yet doth it tend to thy happiness, and will lead thee to Assurance of that happiness at length.
17. LAstly, I desire thee to Consider, What would be the sweet effects of this Examining. If thou be upright and Godly, it will lead thee straight toward Assurance of Gods Love: If thou be not, though it will trouble thee at the present, yet doth it tend to thy happiness, and will lead thee to Assurance of that happiness at length.
- 1§. 8.
1. The very Knowledge it self is naturally desirable. Every man would fain know things to come; especially concerning themselves: If there were a book written which would tell every man his destiny, what shall befall him to his last breath, how desirous would people be to procure it and read it? How did Nebuchadnezzars thoughts run on things that after should come to pass? and he worshipped Daniel,