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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 3
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SECT. III.1
- 1§. 3.
Thirdly, Consider also of the strange judgements, which in all ages have overtaken the most eminent of the enemies of the Scriptures. Besides Antiochus, Herod, Pilate, the persecuting emperors, especially Julian; Church Histories will acquaint you with multitudes more: Foxes book of Martyrs will tell you of many undeniable remarkable *judgements, on those adversaries of pure Religion the Papists, whose greatest wickedness is against these Scriptures; subjecting them to their Church, denying them to the people, and setting up their Traditions as equal to them. ⟨p. 230⟩Yea our own times have afforded us most evident examples. Sure God hath forced many of his enemies to acknowledge in their anguish the truth of his threatenings, and to cry out, as Julian, Vicisti Galilee.
THirdly, Consider also of the strange judgements, which in all ages have overtaken the most eminent of the enemies of the Scriptures. Besides Antiochus, Herod, Pilate, the persecuting emperours, especially Julian; Church Histories will acquaint you with multitudes more: Foxes book of Martyes will tell you of many undeniable remarkable *judgements, on those adversaries of pure Religion the Papists, whose greatest wickedness is against these Scriptures; subjecting them to their Church, denying them to the people, and setting up their Traditions as equall to them.