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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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4. Is not this the ground-work of the whole Fabric of Christianity? And the very dfoundation of our faith? And therefore should it not be timely, and soundly laid, and frequently and clearly taught?
4. Is not this the ground-work of the whole Fabrick of Christianity? And the very dfoundation of our faith? And therefore should it not be timely, and soundly laid, and frequently and clearly taught?
- dI mean, it is now to us the only ordinary sufficient means of revealing Christ.I mean, it is now to us the onely ordinary sufficient means of revealing Christ.
15. Is not Faith a rational Act of a rational Creature? And so the Understanding proceeds discursively in its production? And is not that the strongest Faith which hath the strongest Reasons to prove the Testimony to be valid upon which it resteth, and the clearest apprehension and use of those Reasons? And the truest Faith which hath the truest Reasons truly apprehended and used? And must not that on the contrary be a weak or false faith which receives the Verity and Validity of the Testimony from weak or false Grounds, though the Testimony of it self be the truest in the world? Our Divines use to say concerning love to Christ, that it is not to be measured by the degree of Fervour, so much as by the Grounds and Motives: so that if a man should love Christ upon the same Reasons as a Turk loves Mahomet, it were no true love: if he love him upon false grounds, it must needs be a false love; and if upon common grounds, it can be but a common love. And is it not then as clear, that to believe in Jesus Christ upon the grounds that a Turk believes in Mahomet, or to believe Scripture upon the same reasons that the Turk believes the Alcoran, is no true Faith? Supposing that both have the like verity of their Reasons.