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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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But I shall say most to the Doctrine. For the proof of the former, consider;
First, The whole world was in the times of Moses, and the Prophets comparatively unlearned. A kind of learning the Egyptians then had (and some few others) especially consisting in some small skill in Astronomy: But it was all but barbarous ignorance, ⟨p. 218⟩in comparison of the Learning of Greece and Europe. Those Writings of greatest Antiquity, yet extant, do show this. See also Dr. Hackwell, as before.
First, The whole world was in the times of Moses, and the Prophets comparatively unlearned. A kinde of learning the Egyptians then had (and some few others) especially consisting in some small skill in Astronomy: But it was all but barbarous ignorance, ⟨p. 218⟩in comparison of the Learning of Greece and Europe. Those Writings of greatest Antiquity, yet extant, do shew this. See also Dr. Hackwell, as before.
2. As rare as Learning then was, yet did God choose the unlearned of that unlearned time, to be instruments and Penmen of his choicest Scriptures: David, who was bred a Shepherd, is the Penman of those divine unmatchable Psalms. Amos is taken from a Herdsman to be a Prophet.
2. As rare as Learning then was, yet did God chuse the unlearned of that unlearned time, to be instruments and Penmen of his choisest Scriptures: David, who was bred a Shephard, is the Penman of those divine unmatchable Psalms. Amos is taken from a Heardsman to be a Prophet.