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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 9 › Section 3
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SECT. III.
1I Will not digress further to warn you here of the false Rules and Marks of Trial which you must beware, having opened them to you fuller when I preached on that subject. But I will briefly adjoin some Marks to try thy Title to this Rest, by: referring you for a fuller discovery to the Description of the People of God in the first part of the Book. But be sure you search throughly, and deal plainly, or else you will but lose your labour, and deceive your selves.
1I Will not digress further to warn you here of the false Rules and Marks of Tryal which you must beware, having opened them to you fullier when I preached on that subject. But I will briefly adjoyn some Marks to try thy Title to this Rest, by: referring you for a fuller discovery to the Description of the People of God in the first part of the Book. But be sure you search throughly, and deal plainly, or else you will but lose your labor, and deceive your selves.
- 1§. 3.
1. Every Soul that hath Title to this Rest, doth place his chiefest Happiness in it;1 and make it the chief and ultimate End of his Soul. This is the first Mark: which is so plain a Truth, that I need not stand to prove it. For this Rest consisteth in the full and glorious enjoyment of God: And he that maketh not God his chief Good, and ultimate End, is in heart a Pagan and vile Idolater; and doth not take the Lord for his God.