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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 3 › 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.
SECT. I.
1And here it is necessary that we first distinguish, betwixt 1. The subject matter of Scripture, or the doctrine which it contains; 2. And the words or writings containing or expressing this doctrine. The one is as the blood, the other as the veins in which it runs. Secondly, We must distinguish betwixt 1. the substantial and fundamental part of Scripture• doctrine, without which there is no salvation, and 2. the circumstantial, and less necessary part, as Genealogies, Successions, Chronology, &c. Thirdly, Of the substantial fundamental part 1. Some may be known and proved even without Scripture, as being written in nature it self; 2. some can be known only by the assent of Faith to Divine Revelation. Fourthly, Of this last sort, 1. some things are above Reason (as it is without Divine Revelation) both in respect of their Probability, existence and futurity: 2. others may be known by mere Reason, without Divine Testimony, in regard of their Possibility and Probability; but not in regard of their existence or futurity.
1ANd here it is necessary that we first distinguish, betwixt 1. The subject matter of Scripture, or the doctrine which it contains; 2. And the words or writings containing or expressing this doctrine. The one is as the blood, the other as the veins in which it runs. Secondly, We must distinguish betwixt 1. the substantiall and fundamentall part of Scripture• doctrine, without which there is no salvation, and 2. the circumstantiall, and less necessary part, as Genealogies, Successions, Chronology, &c. Thirdly, Of the substantiall fundamentall part 1. Some may be known and proved even without Scripture, as being written in nature it self; 2. some can be known onely by the assent of Faith to Divine Revelation. Fourthly, Of this last sort, 1. some things are above Reason (as it is without Divine Revelation) both in respect of their Probability, existence and futurity: 2. others may be known by meer Reason, without Divine Testimony, in regard of their Possibility and Probability; but not in regard of their existence or futurity.