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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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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.
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1. I desire them to consider, whether any thing yet published, be near complete, or such as the weight of the subject requires? Whether much more may not be said, and is anecessary to be said, then is yet said by any that hath writ on this subject?