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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
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Object. 2. God may enable false Prophets to work Miracles to try the world, without any derogation to his Faithfulness.
Answ. No: for Divine power being properly the attendant of Divine Revelation, if it should be annexed to Diabolical delusions, it would be a sufficient excuse to the world for their believing those delusions. And if Miracles should not be a sufficient seal to prove the Authority of the witness to be Divine, then is there nothing in the world sufficient; and so our Faith will be quite overthrown.
Answ. No: for Divine power being properly the attendant of Divine Revelation, if it should be annexed to Diabolicall delusions, it would be a sufficient excuse to the world for their believing those delusions. And if Miracles should not be a sufficient seal to prove the Authority of the witness to be Divine, then is there nothing in the world sufficient; and so our Faith will be quite overthrown.
Object. But however, Miracles will no more prove Christ to be the Son of God, then they will prove Moses, Elijah, or Elisha to be the Son of God: for they wrought Miracles as well as Christ.
Object. But however, Miracles will no more prove Christ to be the Son of God, then they will prove Moses, Elias, or Elisha to be the Son of God: for they wrought Miracles as well as Christ.