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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 4
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.
1SECT. IV.
- 1§. 4.
Fourthly, Consider also the eminent Judgements of God that have befallen the vile transgressors of most of his Laws. Besides all the voluminous Histories that make frequent mention of this, I refer you to Doctor Beard his Theatre of Gods Judgments: and the book entitled Gods Judgements upon Sabbath-breakers. And it is like your own *observation may add much.
FOurthly, Consider also the eminent Judgements of God that have befallen the vile transgressors of most of his Laws. Besides all the voluminous Histories that make frequent mention of this, I refer you to Doctor Beard his Theatre of Gods Judgments: and the book entituled Gods Judgements upon Sabbath-breakers. And it is like your own *observation may adde much.
- *About the time of the silencing of Ministers, how many Churches in England were torn at once with terrible lightning, and almost no place else but Churches were touched, especially in the lower part of Devonshire, where many were scorched, maimed, and some their brains struck out as they sat in Church. And at the Church of Anthony in Cornwall▪ near Plymouth, on Witsunday 1640. See the Relation in Print.