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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
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. III.
1Quest. But is it to a determinate number of persons by name, or only to a people thus and thus qualified, viz. persevering Believers, without determining by Name who they are?
1Quest. BUt is it to a determinate number of persons by name, or onely to a people thus and thus qualified, viz. persevering Beleevers, without determining by Name who they are?
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Ans. I purposely in this Discourse omit controversies; only in a word thus: 1. It is promised only to persevering Believers, and not to any particular persons by name. 2. It is purposed with all the conditions of it, and means to it, to a determinate Number, called the Elect, and known by name; which I prove thus.
Ans. I purposely in this Discourse omit controversies; onely in a word thus: 1. It is promised only to persevering Beleevers, and not to any particular persons by name. 2. It is purposed with all the conditions of it, and means to it, to a determinate Number, called the Elect, and known by name; which I prove thus.