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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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These are the extremes which poor England groaneth under; And is there no remedy? Besides the God of Peace▪ there is no remedy. Peace is fled from mens Principles and Judgments, and therefore it is a stranger to their Affections and practises: no wonder then if it be a stranger in the Land, both in Church and State,
These are the extreams which poor England groaneth under; And is there no remedy? Besides the God of Peace▪ there is no remedy. Peace is fled from mens Principles and Judgments, and therefore it is a stranger to their Affections and practises: no wonder then if it be a stranger in the Land, both in Church and State,
If either of the forementioned extremes be the way to Peace, we may have it: or else where is the man that seeketh after it? But I remember Luther's Oracle, and fear it is now to be verified. H•c perdent Religionem Christianam: 1. Oblivio beneficiorum ab Evangelio acceptorum: 2. Securitas, quae jam passim & ubique regnat: 3. Sapientia mundi, quae vult omnia redigere in ordinem, & impiis mediis Ecclesiae paci consulere. Three things will destroy the Christian Religion. First, Forgetfulness of the benefits we received by the Gospel: Secondly, Security: Thirdly, The wisdom of the world which will needs reduce all into Order, and look to the Churches peace by ungodly means.
If either of the forementioned extreams be the way to Peace, we may have it: or else where is the man that seeketh after it? But I remember Luthers Oracle, and fear it is now to be verified. H•c perdent Religionem Christianam: 1. Oblivio beneficiorum ab Evangelio acceptorum: 2. Securitas, quae jam passim & ubique regnat: 3. Sapientia mundi, quae vult omnia redigere in ordinem, & impiis mediis Ecclesiae paci consulere. Three things will destroy the Christian Religion. First, Forgetfulness of the benefits we received by the Gospel: Secondly, Security: Thirdly, The wisdom of the world which will needs reduce all into Order, and look to the Churches peace by ungodly means.