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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
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.
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.
- *I would fain know of any Papist why their Church believes the Scripture to be the Word of God? If the Laity must believe it upon the authority of the Church, and this Church be the Pope and his Clergy, then it followeth that the Pope and Clergy believe it on their Authority, As Paraeus in Th•mat. Seculari xv. Et quia Papa solus vel cum praelatis est Ecclesia, ideo Papa & praelati Scripturis credunt propler seipsos: l•icos voluit cr• dere Scripturis propter Papam & praelatos.I would fain know of any Papist why their Church believes the Scripture to be the Word of God? If the Laiety must believe it upon the authority of the Church, and this Church be the Pope and his Clergy, then it followeth that the Pope and Clergy believe it on their Authority, As Paraeus in Thmat. Seculari xv. Et quia Papa solus vel cum praelatis est Ecclesia, ideo Papa & praelati Scripturis credunt propler seipsos: licos voluit cr dere Scripturis propter Papam & praelatos.