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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 6
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Thirdly, They are the plain fulfilling of the Predictions of Scripture. The Judgements on the offenders are the plain fulfilling of its threatenings: And the mercies to believers are the plain fulfilling of its Promises. As for example; as unlikely as it was, yet Christ foretold his Apostles, that when he was lifted up, he would draw all men to him: He sent them upon an errand ⟨p. 232⟩as unlikely to be so successful as any in the world; and yet he told them just what success they should find; how good to their message and how hard to their persons:1 The promise was of old, to give Christ the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession. Christ promiseth to be with his messengers to the end of the world. Why now how punctually doth he accomplish all this? What particular Prophesies of Scripture have been fulfilled, and when, and how, hath been already at large discovered by aothers, and therefore I shall overpass that.
Thirdly, They are the plain fulfilling of the Predictions of Scripture. The Judgements on the offenders are the plain fulfilling of its threatnings: And the mercies to believers are the plain fulfilling of its Promises. As for example; as unlikely as it was, yet Christ foretold his Apostles, that when he was lifted up, he would draw all men to him: He sent them upon an errand ⟨p. 232⟩as unlikely to be so succesfull as any in the world; and yet he told them just what success they should find; how good to their message and how hard to their persons:1 The promise was of old, to give Christ the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession. Christ promiseth to be with his messengers to the end of the world. Why now how punctually doth he accomplish all this? What particular Prophesies of Scripture have been fulfilled, and when, and how, hath been already at large discovered by a