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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.
SECT. II.1
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But this is but a piece of their description,1 containing Gods work for them, and on them; Lets see what they are also in regard of the working of their own Souls towards God,2 and their Redeemer again. [These people of God then, are that 2 part of the • externally called, 3 who being by the 4 Spirit of Christ 5 throughly, though 6 imperfectly regenerate, are hereupon 7 convinced and 8 sensible of that 9 evil in sin, 10 that misery in themselves, that 11 vanity in the creature, and that 12 necessity, 13 sufficiency and 14 excellency of Jesus Christ, that they 15 abhor that evil, 16 bewail that misery, and 17 turn their hearts from that vanity, and most 19 affectionately 18 accepting of Christ for their 20 Saviour and 21 Lord, to bring them unto 22 God the chief Good, and present them 23 perfectly just before him, do accordingly enter into a 24 Cordial Covenant with him, and so 25 deliver up themselves unto him, and herein 26 persevere to their lives End.]
BUt this is but a piece of their description,1 containing Gods work for them, and on them; Lets see what they are also in regard of the working of their own Souls towards God,2 and their Redeemer again. [These people of God then, are that 2 part of the • externally called, 3 who being by the 4 Spirit of Christ 5 throughly, though 6 imperfectly regenerate, are hereupon 7 convinced and 8 sensible of that 9 evil in sin, 10 that misery in themselves, that 11 vanity in the creature, and that 12 necessity, 13 sufficiency and 14 excellency of Jesus Christ, that they 15 abhor that evil, 16 bewail that misery, and 17 turn their hearts from that vanity, and most 19 affectionately 18 accepting of Christ for their 20 Saviour and 21 Lord, to bring them unto 22 God the chief Good, and present them 23 perfectly just before him, do accordingly enter into a 24 Cordial Covenant with him, and so 25 deliver up themselves unto him, and herein 26 persevere to their lives End.]