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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 5 › Section 3
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SECT. III.1
- 1§ 3.
Secondly, That it proceeded not merely from man, I also §2prove thus. That which was done without the help of humane learning, or any extraordinary endowments of nature, and yet the greatest Philosophers could never reach near it, must needs be the effect of a Power supernatural: But such is both the doctrine and the Miracles in Scripture: therefore, &c.
SEcondly, That it proceeded not meerly from man, I also §2prove thus. That which was done without the help of humane learning, or any extraordinary endowments of nature, and yet the greatest Philosophers could never reach neer it, must needs be the effect of a Power supernaturall: But such is both the doctrine and the Miracles in Scripture: therefore, &c.
It is only the Antecedent that here requires proof: which consists of these two branches, both which I shall make clear.