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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 10
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Paraeus his Master taught him, that Certo certius in qualibet minutissima panis portion, 1vere & substantialiter integrum corpus Christi esset, item in, apud, cum, sub minutissima vini guttula adesset integer sanguis dominicus; what confidence was here in a bad cause? And if you depend on the most reverend and best esteemed Teachers, and suffer the weight of their reputation to turn the Scales, you may in ⟨p. 519⟩many things be never the nearer to the Truth: How many learned able men, hath the name and authority of Luther mislead, in the point of consubstantiation? Ursine was carried away with it a while, till he was turned from it by the reading of Luther's own arguments, they were such Paralogisms: Yet was it Luther's charge to his followers, that none should call themselves after his name, because he dyed not for them, nor was his doctrine his own. The only way therefore to the prospering of your labours is, to quench all flames of contentions, to your power! If you would have the waters of verity and piety to be clear, the way is not to stir in them and trouble them, but to let them settle in peace, and run down into practice. Woe to those Ministers that make unnecessary divisions and parties among the people, that so they may get themselves a name, and be cried up by many followers! And as you should thus study the peace and unity of your congregations, so keep out all the occasions of divisions: especially the doctrine of separation▪ *and popular Church government, the apparent Seminary of faction and perpetual contentions. If once your people be taught that it belongeth to them to govern themselves, and those that Scripture calleth their Guides and Rulers, you shall have mad work! When every one is a Governor, who are the governed? When the multitude how unable soever, must hear and judge of every cause, both their Teachers and others, they need no other employment to follow; this will find them work enough, as it doth to Parliament men to sit and hear and speak and vote. Is it not strange that so learned a man as †Pet. ⟨p. 520⟩