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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.
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. *Its to be understood that many a thousand do profess Christianity, and zealously hate the enemies thereof upon the same grounds, to the same ends, and from the same inward corrupt principles, as the Jews did hate and kill Christ: It is the Religion of the Country, where every man is reproached that believes otherwise; they were born and brought up in this belief, and it hath increased in them upon the like occasions: Had they been born and bred in the Religion of Mahomet, they would have been as zealous for him▪ The difference betwixt him and a Mahometan is more, that he lives where better Laws and Religion dwell, then that he hath more knowledge or soundness of apprehension.
If any think that these words tend to the shaking of mens faith, I answer: First, Onely 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 setled. *Its to be understood that many a thousand do profess Christianity, and zealously hate the enemies thereof upon the same grounds, to the same ends, and from the same inward corrupt principles, as the Jews did hate and kill Christ: It is the Religion of the Countrey, where every man is reproached that believes otherwise; they were born and brought up in this belief, and it hath increased in them upon the like occasions: Had they been born and bred in the Religion of Mahomet, they would have beeen as zealous for him▪ The difference betwixt him and a Mahometan is more, that he lives where better Laws and Religion dwell, then that he hath more knowledg or soundness of apprehension.
- *He that doubts of this, let him see Dr. Jackson of Saving Faith pag. 146.147. And Mr Pinks Sermons of the Sincerity of Love to ChristHe that doubts of this, let him see Dr. Jackson of Saving Faith pag. 146.147. And Mr Pinkes Sermons of the Sincerity of Love to Christ