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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 17
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1SECT. XVII.
- 1§. 17.
The Heads of Divinity which you must teach them first, are these. 1. That there is one only God, who is a Spirit, invisible, infinite, eternal, Almighty, good, merciful, true, just, holy &c. 2. That this God is one in three, Father, Son, and holy Ghost. 3. That he is the Maker, Maintainer, and Lord of all 4. That mans happiness consisteth in the enjoying of this God, and not in fleshly pleasure, profits, or honours. 5. That God made the first man upright and happy, and gave him a Law to keep, with Conditions, that if he kept it perfectly, he should live happy for ever; but if he broke it, he should die. 6. That man broke this Law, and so forfeited his welfare, and became guilty of death, as to himself, and all his Posterity. 7 That Christ, the Son of God, did here interpose, and prevent the full execution, undertaking to die in stead of man, and so to Redeem him: whereupon all things were delivered into his hands as the Redeemer, and he is under that relation the Lord of all. 8. That Christ hereupon did make with man a better Covenant or Law, which proclaimed pardon of sin to all that did but repent and believe & obey sincerely. 9. That he revealed this Covenant and Mercy to the world by degrees, first, in darker Promises, Prophecies, and Sacrifices; then in many Ceremonious Types, and then by more plain foretellings by the Prophet•. 10. That in the fullness of time Christ came, and took our Nature into Union with his Godhead, being conceived by the holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary. 11. That while he was on earth, he lived a life of sorrows, was crowned with Thorns▪ and bore the pains that our sins deserved; at last being Crucified to death, and buried, and so satisfied the Justice of God. 12. That he also Preached himself to the Jews, and by constant Miracles did prove the truth of his Doctrine and Mediatorship, before thousands of Witnesses: That he revealed more fully his New Law or Covenant, That whosoever will believe in him, and accept him for Saviour,