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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 4
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. IV.
As thou takest God for thy chief Good, so [Thou dost heartily accept of Christ for thy only Saviour and Lord to bring thee to this Rest].1 The former Mark was the sum of the first and great Command of the Law of Nature, [Thou shalt Love the Lord with all thy heart, or above all.] This second Mark is the sum of the Command or Condition of the Gospel, which saith, [Believe in the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved.] And the performance of these two is the whole sum or essence of Godliness and Christianity. Observe therefore the parts of this Mark, which is but a Definition of Faith. 1. Dost thou find that thou art naturally a lost condemned man for thy breach of the first Covenant? and dost believe that Jesus Christ is the Mediator who hath made a sufficient satisfaction to the Law? and hearing in the Gospel that he is offered without exception unto all, dost heartily consent that he alone shall be thy Saviour? and dost no further trust to thy Duties and works, then as conditions required by him, and means appointed in subordination to him? not looking at them as in the least measure able to satisfy the Curse of the Law, or as a Legal Righteousness, nor any part of it? But art content to trust thy Salvation on the Redemption made by Christ?