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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 5
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Fifthly, Consider further of the eminent providences that have been exercised for the bodies and states of particular believers. The strange deliverance of many intended to Martyrdom; As you have many instances in the Acts and Monuments: besides those in Eusebius and others, that mention the stories of the first persecutions. If it were convenient here to make particular mention of mens names, I could name you many, who in these late wars have received such strange preservations, even against the common course of nature, that might convince an Atheist of the finger of God therein. But this is so ordinary, that I am persuaded there is scarce a godly experienced Christian, that carefully observes, and faithfully recordeth the providences of God toward him, but is able to bring forth some such experiment; and to show you some such strange and unusual mercies, which may plainly discover an Almighty disposer making good the promises of this Scripture to his servants, some in desperate diseases of body, some ⟨p. 231⟩in other apparent dangers, delivered so suddenly, or so much against the common course of nature, when all the best remedies have failed, that no second cause could have any hand in their deliverance.
FIfthly, Consider further of the eminent providences that have been exercised for the bodies and states of particular believers. The strange deliverance of many intended to Martyrdome; As you have many instances in the Acts and Monuments: besides those in Eusebius and others, that mention the stories of the first persecutions. If it were convenient here to make particular mention of mens names, I could name you many, who in these late wars have received such strange preservations, even against the common course of nature, that might convince an Atheist of the finger of God therein. But this is so ordinary, that I am perswaded there is scarce a godly experienced Christian, that carefully observes, and faithfully recordeth the providences of God toward him, but is able to bring forth some such experiment; and to shew you some such strange and unusuall mercies, which may plainly discover an Almighty disposer making good the promises of this Scripture to his servants, some in desperate diseases of body, some