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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.
1SECT. XIIII.
- 1§ 14.
66. WE shall then Rest also from all our sad Divisions, and unchristian like quarrels with one another. As he said, who saw the Carcasses lie together, as if they had embraced each other, who had been slain by each other in a Duel. Quantâ see invicem amplectuntur amicitiâ, qui mutuâ implacabili inimicitiâ periêre? How lovingly do they embrace one another, being dead, who perished through their mutual implacable enmity? So, how lovingly do thousands live together in Heaven, who lived in Divisions and Quarrels on Earth? or as he said, Who beheld how quietly and peaceably the bones and dust of mortal enemies did lie together. Non tantâ vivi pace essetis conjuncti: You did not live together so peaceably. So we may say of multitudes in Heaven, now all of one mind, one heart, and one employment, You lived not on Earth in so sweet familiarity. There is no contention, because none of this Pride, Ignorance, or other Corruption. Paul and Barnabas are now fully reconciled. There they are not every man conceited of his own understanding, and in love with the issue of his own Brain; but all admiring the Divine perfection, and in love with God,2 and one another. As old Grynaeus wrote to his friend, Si te non ampliùs in his terris videam, ibi tamen conveniemus ubi Lutherus cum Zuinglio optimè jam convenit: If I see you no more on Earth, yet we shall there meet, where Luther and Zuinglius are now well agreed. There is a full reconciliation between Sacramentarians and Ubiquitarians, Calvinists and Lutherans, Remonstrants and Contra-Remonstrants, Disciplinarians and Anti Disciplinarians, Conformists and Non-Conformists, Antinomians and Legalists are terms there not known. Presbyterians and Independents are perfectly agreed: There is no Discipline erected by State Policy, nor any disordered popular rule: No Government but that of Christ: All things are established Jure Divino. No bitter Invectives, nor voluminous reproaches: The Language of