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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 6 › Section 2
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And when we gave up all for lost, then did God most evidently restore it. When it was thought about a year or two before; that the whole Kingdom would not have afforded enough, to have resisted the power of the persecutors in one County, they were so oppressed and banished into America; then did God arise and his enemies did fly before him; they melted as the wax before the fire, they were scattered as the chaff before the wind.
And when we gave up all for lost, then did God most evidently restore it. When it was thought about a yeer or two before; that the whole Kingdome would not have afforded enough, to have resisted the power of the persecuters in one County, they were so oppressed and banished into America; then did God arise and his enemies did flie before him; they melted as the waxe before the fire, they were scattered as the chaffe before the wind.
Not that I make a mere success, any evidence of a good cause; ⟨p. 227⟩But successes that have the apparent finger of God, and are brought about by such wonders of providence, I am sure do teach us much of God, and tend exceedingly to confirm us, in the verity of his promises. Some men are so strongly possest with prejudice, and others so unobservant of Divine providence, and others such Atheists, that they think all things fall out by chance, that it is no wonder if nothing work upon them: Miracles from Heaven had no better success with most of the beholders in times of old. Sure the strange providences for the Church in the times of Judges, of the Kings, of Esther, of Nehemiah, were very convincing, though they were not miracles. And ours have been as strange as most of theirs. For my own part, having been an eye witness of a very great part of these eminent providences, from the first of the war; I have plainly seen something above the course of nature, and ordinary way of Gods workings, in almost every fight that I have beheld. And many of the adversaries that before would not see, yet have seen the hand of God, and have been ashamed, because of their envyings at his people, Isay 26.10. Many do yet suspend their judgement of all this, till they see the full Issue: so cannot I: whatever the end may yet prove, I am sure I have seen the Lord in the means: And we may yet set up Samuel's stone,