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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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8. There is many a one who feels his faith shake here, who never discovers it; To doubt of our Evidences, is taken for no great disgrace, and therefore men more freely profess such doubts; nay, and some perhaps who are not much troubled with them, because they would be thought to be humble Christians. But to question the truth of Scripture is a reproachful Blasphemy, and therefore all that are guilty here speak not their doubts.
8. There is many a one who feels his faith shake here, who never discovers it; To doubt of our Evidences, is taken for no great disgrace, and therefore men more freely profess such doubts; nay, and some perhaps who are not much troubled with them, because they would be thought to be humble Christians. But to question the truth of Scripture is a reproachful Blalphemy, and therefore all that are guilty here speak not their doubts.
9. Is not the greatest battery by all sort of enemies, especially made against this Foundation? The first place that the *Papist assaults you, in is here, How know you the Scripture to be the Word of God? The Seekers (who are the Jesuits By blows, though they yet know not their own father) will accost you with the like question; How know you that your Scripture and your Ministry is of God? The Familists and Libertines do spit their venom here: And some Christians by experience are able to testify that Satan's temptations are most violent here; Yea, and our own carnal deluded Reason is aptest of all to stumble here.
9. Is not the greatest battery by all sort of enemies, especially made against this Foundation? The first place that the *Papist assaults you, in is here, How know you the Scripture to be the Word of God? The Seekers (who are the Jesuits By blows, though they yet know not their own father) will accoast you with the like question; How know you that your Scripture and your Ministery is of God? The Familists and Libertines do spit their venom here: And some Christians by experience are able to testifie that Satans temptations are most violent here; Yea, and our own carnal deluded Reason is aptest of all to stumble here.