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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.
1And thus you have a naked enumeration of the Essentials of this People of God: Not a full portraiture of them in all their excellencies, nor all the notes whereby they may be discerned; which were both beyond my present purpose. And though it will be part of the following Application, to put you upon trial; yet because the Description is now before your eyes, and these evidencing works are fresh in your memory, it will not be unseasonable, nor unprofitable for you, to take an account of your own ⟨p. 161⟩estates, and to view your selves exactly in this glass, before you pass on any further. And I beseech thee, Reader, as thou hast the hope of a Christian, yea, or the reason of a man, to deal throughly, and search carefully, and judg thy self as one that must shortly be judged by the righteous God; and faithfully answer to these few Questions which I shall here propound.
1ANd thus you have a naked enumeration of the Essentials of this People of God: Not a full pourtraiture of them in all their excellencies, nor all the notes whereby they may be discerned; which were both beyond my present purpose. And though it will be part of the following Application, to put you upon tryal; yet because the Description is now before your eyes, and these evidencing works are fresh in your memory, it will not be unseasonable, nor unprofitable for you, to take an account of your own ⟨p. 161⟩estates, and to view your selves exactly in this glass, before you pass on any further. And I beseech thee, Reader, as thou hast the hope of a Christian, yea, or the reason of a man, to deal throughly, and search carefully, and judg thy self as one that must shortly be judged by the righteous God; and faithfully answer to these few Questions which I shall here propound.
- 1The Application of this Description, by way of Examination.