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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
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.
And it is not the least aggravation of these mens arrogance, that they are most violent in the points that they have least studied, or which they are most ignorant in: Yea and that their cruel reproaches are usually so incessant,1 that where they once fasten, they scarce •ver loose again; having learned the old lesson, to be sure to accuse boldly,2 for the scar will remain when the wound is healed. Yea some will not spare the same of the dead, but when their souls have the happiness of Saints with God, their names must have the stain of Heresy with men. More ingenuity had Charles the Emperor, when the Spanish soldiers would have digged up the bones of Luther: Sinite ipsum, inquit, quiescere ad diem resurrectionis, et judicium omnium, &c. Let him rest, saith he, till the resurrection and the final Judgment: if he were a Heretic he shall have as severe a Judg as you can desire.
And it is not the least aggravation of these mens arrogancie, that they are most violent in the points that they have least studyed, or which they are most ignorant in: Yea and that their cruel reproaches are usually so incessant,1 that where they once fasten, they scarce •ver loose again; having learned the old lesson, to be sure to accuse boldly,2 for the scarre will remain when the wound is healed. Yea some will not spare the same of the dead, but when their souls have the happiness of Saints with God, their names must have the stain of Heresie with men. More ingenuity had Charles the Emperor, when the Spanish souldiers would have digged up the bones of Luther: Sinite ipsum, inquit, quiescere ad diem resurrectionis, et judicium omnium, &c. Let him rest, saith he, till the resurrection and the final Judgment: if he were a Heretick he shall have as severe a Judg as you can desire.
- 1Lege vitam Ge. Majoris.
- 2