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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.
2. And as its no more excellent a creature then Man that must have this possession; so is it that man who once was lost, and had scarcely left himself so much as man. The heirs of this Kingdom were taken,1 even from the Tree of execution, and rescued by the strong hand of love from the power of the Prince of Darkness, who having taken them in his snares, did lead them captive at his will: They were once within a step of Hell, who must be now advanced as high as Heaven. And though I mention their lost condition before their predestination, yet I hereby intend not to signify any precedency it hath, either in it self, or in the divine consideration. Though I cannot see yet, how Dr. Twisses Arguments against the corrupted mass being the object of predestination, can be well Answered upon the common acknowledged grounds; Yet that Question I dare not touch, as being very suspicious that its high Arrogancy in us to dispute of precedency in the Divine Consideration; and that we no more know what we talk of, then this paper knows what I write of: When we confess, that all these Acts in God are truly one, and that there is no difference of time with him; Its folly to dispute of priority or posteriority in nature.
2. And as its no more excellent a creature then Man that must have this possession; so is it that man who once was lost, and had scarcely left himself so much as man. The heirs of this Kingdom were taken,1 even from the Tree of execution, and rescued by the strong hand of love from the power of the Prince of Darkness, who having taken them in his snares, did lead them captive at his will: They were once within a step of Hell, who must be now advanced as high as Heaven. And though I mention their lost condition before their predestination, yet I hereby intend not to signifie any precedency it hath, either in it self, or in the divine consideration. Though I cannot see yet, how Dr. Twisses Arguments against the corrupted mass being the object of predestination, can be well Answered upon the common acknowledged grounds; Yet that Question I dare not touch, as being very suspicious that its high Arrogancy in us to dispute of precedency in the Divine Consideration; and that we no more know what we talk of, then this paper knows what I write of: VVhen we confess, that all these Acts in God are truly one, and that there is no difference of time with him; Its folly to dispute of priority or posteriority in nature.