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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. › Chapter 2: This Rest Defined.
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.
CHAP. II. This Rest Defined.
SECT. I.
1Now let us see: 1. What this Rest is. 2. What these people of God, and why so called. 3. The truth of this from other Scripture Arguments. 4. Why this Rest must yet Remain. 5. Why only to this people of God. 6. What use to make of it.
1NOw let us see: 1. What this Rest is. 2. What these people of God, and why so called. 3. The truth of this from other Scripture Arguments. 4. Why this Rest must yet Remain. 5. Why onely to this people of God. 6. What use to make of it.
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1. And though the sense of the Text includes in the word Rest, all that ease and safety which a Soul, wearied with the burden of sin and suffering, and pursued by Law, Wrath, and Conscience, hath with Christ in this life; the Rest of Grace: yet because it chiefly intends the Rest of eternal Glory, as the end and main part, I shall therefore confine my Discourse to this last.