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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
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.
1Quest. TO] Is it to the people of God upon Certainty, or only upon possibility.
- 1§. 4.
Ans. If only possible, it cannot thus be called theirs.
11. While they are only elect, not called, it is certain to them (we speak of a certainty of the object) by Divine purpose; for ⟨p. 5⟩they are ordained to eternal life first,2 and therefore believe; and not first believe and therefore elected.
11. While they are only elect, not called, it is certain to them (we speak of a certainty of the object) by Divine purpose; for ⟨p. 5⟩they are ordained to eternal life first,2 and therefore beleeve; and not first beleeve and therefore elected.