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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.
But a great difficulty riseth in our way. In what sense is our Improvement of our Talent,1 our well doing, our overcoming; our harbouring, visiting, feeding, &c. Christ in his little ones; alleged as a Reason of our Coronation and Glory? Is not it the purchased ⟨p. 67⟩possession, and meet fruit of Christs blood? If every man must be judged according to his works, and receive according to what they have done in the flesh, whether good or evil; and God will render to every man according to his Deeds;2 and give eternal life to men, if they patiently continue in well doing, and give right to the tree of Life,3 and entrance into the City, to the doers of his Commandments; and if this last Absolving Sentence be the completing of our Justification,4 and so the doers of the Law be justified; Why then what's become of Free Grace? of Justification by Faith only? of the sole Righteousness of Christ to make us accepted? Then the Papists say rightly, That we are Righteous by our personal Righteousness, and Good Works concur to Justification.
But a great difficulty riseth in our way. In what sence is our Improvement of our Talent,1 our well doing, our overcoming; our harboring, visiting, feeding, &c. Christ in his little ones; alledged as a Reason of our Coronation and Glory? Is not it the purchased ⟨p. 67⟩possession, and meet fruit of Christs blood? If every man must be judged according to his works, and receive according to what they have done in the flesh, whether good or evil; and God will render to every man according to his Deeds;2 and give eternal life to men, if they patiently continue in well doing, and give right to the tree of Life,