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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.
Yea, therefore, let us be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as we know our Labour is not in vain in the Lord, 1 Cor. 15.58.
Yea, therefore, let us be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as we know our Labor is not in vain in the Lord, 1 Cor. 15.58.
It's a Question much debated, Whether a Resurrection be only an effect of Christs Death and Resurrection? And whether there should have been any Resurrection, if Christ had not come? Some that maintain the Negative of the last Question, do also *maintain, ⟨p. 56⟩That the Sin under the Covenant of Nature, or Works, did deserve only the separation of Soul and Body; and not Eternal Torments. Whence also follows, that the Soul is (or, at least, then was) Mortal; or that it hath no Being, or no Sense, when it's separated from the Body. As also, that Christ dyed to Redeem us only from the Grave, and not from Hell. And so their Doctrine of Universal Redemption, in this sense asserted, doth neither so much honour the merits of Christ, nor advance his mercy, as they pretend: For it maketh him to raise us only from the Grave, and bring all the world into a Capacity of Eternal Torment: He fore-knowing the same time, that most would certainly reject him, and so perish. But, as I confess these of weight and difficulty; so, having professed in this Discourse, to handle matters less controverted; I pretermit them.
It's a Question much debated, Whether a Resurrection be onely an effect of Christs Death and Resurrection? And whether there should have been any Resurrection, if Christ had not come? Some that maintain the Negative of the last Question, do also