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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 whom Christ hath redeemed with an absolute intent of saving them;2 which cannot be said of any other.
- 2Special Redemption.
3. Whom he hath also renewed by the power of his grace,3 and made them in some sort like to himself, stamping his own Image on them,2 and making them holy as he is holy.
- 3Likeness to him.
- 21 Pet. 1.16.
4. They are those whom he embraceth with a peculiar Love,4 and do again love him above all.
- 4Mutual Love.