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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 4 › Section 4
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.
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Having thus showed you in what sense the Scriptures are the word of God, and how far to be believed, and what is the excellency, necessity and authority of them;1 I shall now add three or four Arguments to help your Faith, which I hope will not only prove them to be Divine Testimony to the substance of Doctrine (though that be a useful work against our unbelief) but also that they are the very written Laws of God, and a perfect Rule of Faith and duty. My Arguments shall be but few, because I handle it but on the by; and those such as I find little of in others writings, least I should wast time in doing what is done to my hands.
HAving thus shewed you in what sense the Scriptures are the word of God, and how far to be believed, and what is the excellency, necessity and authority of them;1 I shall now adde three or four Arguments to help your Faith, which I hope will not onely prove them to be Divine Testimony to the substance of Doctrine (though that be a usefull work against our unbelief) but also that they are the very written Laws of God, and a perfect Rule of Faith and duty. My Arguments shall be but few, because I handle it but on the by; and those such as I finde little of in others writings, least I should wast time in doing what is done to my hands.
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