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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.
[inherit] No longer bond-men,1 nor servants only, nor children under age, who differ not in possession, but only in title from servants: But now we are heirs of the Kingdom, Jam. 2.5. Coheirs with Christ. [The Kingdom] No less then the Kingdom? Indeed to be King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, is our Lords own proper title: But to be Kings, and reign with him, is ours: The fruition of this Kingdom, is as the fruition of the light of the Sun, each have the whole, and the rest never the less. [Prepared for you] God is the Alpha, as well as the Omega of our Blessedness. Eternal Love hath laid the foundation. He prepared the Kingdom for us, and then prepared us for the Kingdom. This is the preparation of his Counsel and Decree; for the execution whereof Christ was yet to make a further preparation. [For you] Not for Believers only in general, who without individual persons are no body: Nor only for you upon condition of your believing: But for you personally and determinately; for all the Conditions were also prepared for you. [From the foundation of the world] Not only from the Promise after Adams fall, (as some) but (as the phrase usually signifieth, though not always) from Eternity. These were the eternal thoughts of Gods love towards us; and this is it he purposed for us.
[inherit] No longer bond-men,1 nor servants onely, nor children under age, who differ not in possession, but onely in title from servants: But now we are heirs of the Kingdom, Jam. 2.5. Coheirs with Christ. [The Kingdom] No less then the Kingdom? Indeed to be King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, is our Lords own proper title: But to be Kings, and reign with him, is ours: The fruition of this Kingdom, is as the fruition of the light of the Sun, each have the whole, and the rest never the less. [Prepared for you] God is the Alpha, as well as the Omega of our Blessedness. Eternal Love hath layd the foundation. He prepared the Kingdom for us, and then prepared us for the Kingdom. This is the preparation of his Counsel and Decree; for the execution whereof Christ was yet to make a further preparation. [For you] Not for Beleevers onely in general, who without individual persons are no body: Nor onely for you upon condition of your beleeving: But for you personally and determinately; for all the Conditions were also prepared for you. [From the foundation of the world] Not onely from the Promise after Adams fall, (as some) but (as the phrase usually signifieth, though not always) from Eternity. These were the eternal thoughts of Gods love towards us; and this is it he purposed for us.