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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
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.
Fourthly, These bJudgments have been usually executed on offenders, at the very time when they have been either opposing or violating Scripture: And these mercies bestowed chiefly upon believers at such a time when they have been most engaged in defence of, or obedience to the Scriptures.
- bAsk them in New England whether Mistress Hutchinsons and Mistress Dyers most hideous monstrous births were not convincing providences against their Antinomian Anti-scriptural heresies, as if God from heaven had spoke against them: and yet Old England will not take warning. See Nicephor. Eccl. hist. Tem. 1. li. 4. cap. 13. where Tertulli. Jul. Capitolinus, Orosius, &c. do mention.Ask them in New England whether Mistris Hutchinsons and Mistris Dyers most hideous monstrous births were not convincing providences against their Antinomian Anti-scriptural heresies, as if God from heaven had spoke against them: and yet Old England will not take warning. See Nicephor. Eccl. hist. Tem. 1. li. 4. cap. 13. where Tertulli. Jul. Capitolinus, Orosius, &c. do mention.
Fifthly, They usually proceed in such effectual sort, that they force the enemies and ungodly to confess the cause: yea and oft times the very standers by: so do they force believers also to see, that God makes good his word in all their mercies.
Fifthly, They usually proceed in such effectuall sort, that they force the enemies and ungodly to confesse the cause: yea and oft times the very standers by: so do they force believers also to see, that God makes good his word in all their mercies.