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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.
22. That these people of God are but [a Part] of those that are thus externally called, is too evident in Scripture and experience. Many are called but few chosen: But the internally effectually called are all chosen: For, whom he called them he justified, and whom he justified them he glorified. The bare invitation of the Gospel, and mens hearing the Word, is so far from giving title to, or being an evidence of Christianity and its privileges, that where it prevails not to a through-Conversion, it sinks deeper and casts under a double damnation.
22. That these people of God are but [a Part] of those that are thus externally called, is too evident in Scripture and experience. Many are called but few chosen: But the internally effectually called are all chosen: For, whom he called them he justified, and whom he justified them he glorified. The bare invitation of the Gospel, and mens hearing the Word, is so far from giving title to, or being an evidence of Christianity and its priviledges, that where it prevailes not to a through-Conversion, it sinks deeper and casts under a double damnation.
- 2They are but part of the externally called. Rom. 8.30.
33. The first differencing work I affirm to be [Regeneration by the Spirit of Christ;] taking it for granted that this Regeneration is the same with effectual Vocation, with Conversion, with Sanctification, (understanding Conversion and Sanctification, of the first infusion of the principle of Spiritual life into the soul, and not for the addition of degrees, or the sanctifying of the conversation,2