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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 18
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1SECT. XVIII.
- 1§. 18.
Then for matter of practice, teach them the meaning of the Commandments, especially of the great Commands of the Gospel, show them what is commanded and forbidden▪ in the first table and in the second, toward God and men, in regard of the inward and the outward man. And here show them. 1. The Authority commanding, that is, the Almighty God, by Christ the Redeemer. They are not now to look at command, as coming from God immediately, merely as God, or the Creator, but as coming ⟨p. 551⟩from God by Christ the Mediator, who is now the Lord of all, and only Lawgiver; seeing the father now Judgeth no man, but hath committed all Judgment to the Son, John 5.22, 23, 24. 2. Show them the terms on which duty is required, and the ends of it. 3. And the nature and duties, and the way to perform them aright. 4. And the right order, that they first love God above all, and then their neighbour: first seek the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. 5. Show them the excellencies and delights of Gods service. 6. And the flat necessity. 7. Especially labour to get all their hearts, and teach them not only to speak the words.
THen for matter of practice, teach them the meaning of the Commandments, especially of the great Commands of the Gospel, shew them what is commanded and forbidden▪ in the first table and in the second, toward God and men, in regard of the inward and the outward man. And here shew them. 1. The Authority commanding, that is, the Almighty God, by Christ the Redeemer. They are not now to look at command, as coming from God immediatly, meerly as God, or the Creator, but as coming