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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 12 › Section 9
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And if the words of God will not serve the turn, let the tongues of enemies and Sectaries show you your transgressions: Of whom I may say to you, as Erasmus of Luther, Deus dedit huic postremae aetati propter morborum multitudinem acrem medi cum: And as the Emperor Charles of the same Luther, Si sacri ficuli frugi essent, nullo indigerent Luthero. Yet let not any Papist catch at this, as if our Ministry were unlearned and vicious in comparison of theirs: the contrary for the common sort is well known: And though the Jesuits of late have been so industrious and learned, yet I could tell them out of Erasmus, of some that proved heretics must be killed, from Pauls Haereticum hominem devita, i. e. de vita tolle. And of Hen. Stephanus his priest of Artois, that would prove that it belonged to his parishioners to pave the Church, and not to him, from Jeremies Paveant illi, non paveam ego. Or if these seem partial witnesses, I could tell them what Bellarmine saith of the ninth Age: Seculo haec nullum extitit indoctius aut infaelicius, quo qui mathematicae aut Philosophiae operam dabat, magus vulgò putabatur: And as *Espencae•s saith, ut Graecè rosse suspectum fuerit, Haebraicè prope haereticum. I could tell them also what a Clergy was found in Germany and in England at the Reformation, what barbarous ignorance, beastly uncleanness, and murders of the children begotten in whoredom was found among them. I ⟨p. 516⟩could tell them who have been turned from their Church by a mere journey to Rome, there seeing the wickedness of their chiefest Clergy; And what Petrarch, Mantuan, with multitudes more say of it. And (if the most horrid murders were not become virtues with them and did they not think they did God service by killing his servants) I should mind them of all the burnings in England, and of all the unparalleled bloody Massacres in France, and the inquisition of Spain, which their Clergy yet manage and promote. If any say that I speak this but upon reports, we have seen no such thing: I answer as Pausanias, when he was blamed for dispraising a Physician that he had never made trial of, Si periculum fecissem nequaquam viverem: If we had fallen into their hands it had been too late to complain. Quia me vestigia terrent▪ Omnia in adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum. And some taste of the fruit of their projects we have lately had in England: