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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 2
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.
Its strange to consider, how we all abhor that piece of Popery, as most injurious to God of all the rest, which resolves our faith into the Authority of the Church: And yet that we do for the generality of professors content our selves with the same kind of faith! Only with this difference: The Papists believe Scripture to be the Word of God, because their Church saith so: aand we, because our Church, or our Leaders say so. Yea, and many Ministers never yet gave their people better grounds; but tell them (which is true) that it is damnable to deny it, but help them not to the necessary Antecedents of Faith.
Its strange to consider, how we all abhor that piece of Popery, as most injurious to God of all the rest, which resolves our faith into the Authority of the Church: And yet that we do for the generality of professors content our selves with the same kinde of faith! Onely with this difference: The Papists believe Scripture to be the Word of God, because their Church saith so: aand we, because our Church, or our Leaders say so. Yea, and many Mininisters never yet gave their people better grounds; but tell them (which is true) that it is damnable to deny it, but help them not to the necessary Antecedents of Faith.
- aSequor te non qu• du•is, sed quo trahis, inquit Scaliger ad C•rdanum in Exercit.
If any think that these words tend to the shaking of mens faith, I answer: First, Only of that which will fall of it self: Secondly, And that it may in time be built again more strongly: Thirdly, Or at least that the sound may be surer settled. *