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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 7 › Section 2
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12. But yet if this be not palpable enough, The frequent Apparitions of Satan in several shapes, drawing men, or frighting them into sin, is a discovery undeniable. I know many are very incredulous herein, and will hardly believe that there have been such apparitions: For my own part, though I am as suspicious as most in such reports, and do believe that most of them are conceits or delusions, yet having been very diligently inquisitive in such cases, I have received undoubted Testimony of the Truth of such Apparitions; some from the mouths of men of undoubted honesty and godliness, and some from the report of multitudes of persons, who heard or saw. Were it fit here to name the persons, I could send you to them yet living, by whom you would be as fully satisfied as I: Houses that have been so frequently haunted with such terrors, that the Inhabitants successively have been witnesses of it.
12. BUt yet if this be not palpable enough, The frequent Apparitions of Satan in several shapes, drawing men, or frighting them into sin, is a discovery undeniable. I know many are very incredulous herein, and will hardly believe that there have been such apparitions: For my own part, though I am as suspitious as most in such reports, and do believe that most of them are conceits or delusions, yet having been very diligently inquisitive in such cases, I have received undoubted Testimony of the Truth of such Apparitions; some from the mouths of men of undoubted honesty and godliness, and some from the report of multitudes of persons, who heard or saw. Were it fit here to name the persons, I could send you to them yet living, by whom you would be as fully satisfied as I: Houses that have been so frequently haunted with such terrors, that the Inhabitants successively have been witnesses of it.
- 1Lege Epistolam V•ssii de Samuele apparente Saulo, in Joan Beverovitii Epistolis. Et D. Prideaux Hypomnemata. pag. 261, 262