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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.
First, Enlarging our Creed, and making more Fundamentals, •hen God hath done. (Master Parker, and Ludovicus Crocius have fully proved, That the Creed for a long time contained no more •hen Christs words in Matth. 28. do teach, To believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and no more were they baptized •nto.)
First, Englarging our Creed, and making more Fundamentals, •hen God hath done. (Master Parker, and Ludovicus Crocius have fully proved, That the Creed for a long time contained no more •hen Christs words in Matth. 28. do teach, To beleeve in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and no more were they baptized •nto.)
Secondly, Delivering our Creeds, and Confessions in our own Humane phrase.
When men have learned more manners and humility, 1then to accuse the Language of God, as too general and obscure; and have more dread of God, and compassion on themselves, then to make those Fundamentals, which God never made so: And when they reduce their Creed and Confessions, first, To their due extent, or length; secondly, And to Scripture phrase; and take this only for a Touchstone of the Orthodox, then, and not tell then, shall the Church have peace about Doctrinals: If my judgment much fail not. It seems to me no heinous Socinian motion, which is so cried out against of Chillingworth's making, viz. That every man subscribe to the whole Scripture, as Gods Word, with a promise to do his best for the right understanding of it. No doubt, many a Heretic would so subscribe, and lurk under a false interpretation; and so he may do also by their Humane Canons. But I forget my self in thus digressing.