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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
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.
as Pellicanus did send back the silver bowl (which the Bishop had sent him for a token) with this answer, Astricti sunt quotquot Tyguri cives & inquilini, bis singulis annis, solenni juramento, ne quis eorum ullum munus ab ullo principe accipiat; All that are Citizens and Inhabitants of Tigurum, are solemnly sworn twice a year, not to receive any gift from any Prince abroad; so say thou, we the Citizens and Inhabitants of heaven, are bound by solemn and frequent Covenants, not to have our hearts enticed or entangled, with any foreign honours or delights, but only with those of our own Country: If thy thoughts should like the laborious Be, go over the world from flower to flower, from creature to creature, they would bring thee no Honey or sweetness home, save what they gathered from their relations to Eternity.
as Pellicanus did send back the silver bowl (which the Bishop had sent him for a token) with this answer, Astricti sunt quotquot Tyguri cives & inquilini, bis singulis annis, solenni juramento, ne quis eorum ullum munus ab ullo principe accipiat; All that are Citizens and Inhabitants of Tigurum, are solemnly sworn twice a yeer, not to receive any gift from any Prince abroad; so say thou, we the Citizens and Inhabitants of heaven, are bound by solemn and frequent Covenants, not to have our hearts enticed or entangled, with any forraign honors or delights, but only with those of our own Countrey: If thy thoughts should like the laborious Bee, go over the world from flower to flower, from creature to creature, they would bring thee no Honey or sweetness home, save what they gathered from their relations to Eternity.
Object. But you will say perhaps, Divinity is of larger extent, then only to treat of the life to come, or the way thereto; there are many controversies of great difficulty, which therefore require much of our thoughts, and so they must not be all of heaven.
Object. But you will say perhaps, Divinity is of larger extent, then onely to treat of the life to come, or the way thereto; there are many controversies of great difficulty, which therefore require much of our thoughts, and so they must not be all of heaven.