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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
THE SAINTS Everlasting REST. PART II. › Chapter 2 › Section 1
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But if I should here enter upon that task [to prove Scripture to be the infallible word of God] I should make too broad a digression, and set upon a work as large as the main, for whose sake I should undertake it; Neither am I insensible of how great difficulty it would prove to manage it satisfactorily, and how much more then my ability is thereto requisite.
But if I should here enter upon that task [to prove Scripture to be the infallible word of God] I should make too broad a digression, and set upon a work as larg as the maine, for whose sake I should undertake it; Neither am I insensible of how great difficulty it would prove to manage it satisfactorily, and how much more then my ability is thereto requisite.
Yet lest the tempted Christian should have no relief nor any ⟨p. 175⟩Argument at hand against the temptation, I shall adventure upon a confirming Argument or two: but I shall premise first a word of entreaty to my brethren of the Ministry, to preach this a little more to their people:1 And, that (not any body) but some of the choicest, whom God hath especially furnished for such a task, would be pleased in a full Treatise to undertake it. To which end I give them some of the Reasons of my request: entreating the Lord to enable and persuade some of them to the work.
Yet lest the tempted Christian should have no relief nor any ⟨p. 175⟩Argument at hand against the temptation, I shall adventure upon a confirming Argument or two: but I shall premise first a word of entreaty to my brethren of the Ministery, to preach this a little more to their people:1 And, that (not any body) but some of the choicest, whom God hath especially furnished for such a task, would be pleased in a full Treatise to undertake it. To which end I give them some of the Reasons of my request: entreating the Lord to enable and perswade some of them to the work.