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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 3
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What possession is? and how the devil is confined to a body, or whether circumscribed there in whole or in part, are things beyond my reach to know. But that the strange effects which we have seen on some bodies,1 have been the products of the special power of the devil there, I doubt not. Though for my own part I believe, that Gods Works on the world are usually by Instruments, and not immediate; and as good Angels are his Instruments in conveying his Mercies, both to soul and body, and Churches, ⟨p. 242⟩and States; so evil Angels are instruments of inflicting his Judgments, both corporal and spiritual. Hence God is said, Psal. 78.49 to send evil Angels among the Israelites: hence Pauls phrase, of delivering to Satan:2 hence Satan doth execution on the children, cattle, and body of Job, and upon Jerusalem in that Plague, after numbering the people. To satisfy you fully in this, and to silence your objections, and to teach you the true and spiritual use of this doctrine, I refer you to Master Lawrence's book (a now Member of the House of Commons) called Our Communion and War with Angels.
What possession is? and how the devil is confined to a body, or whether circumscribed there in whole or in part, are things beyond my reach to know. But that the strange effects which we have seen on some bodies,1 have been the products of the special power of the devil there, I doubt not. Though for my own part I believe, that Gods Works on the world are usually by Instruments, and not immediate; and as good Angels are his Instruments in conveying his Mercies, both to soul and body, and Churches, ⟨p. 242⟩and States; so evil Angels are instruments of inflicting his Judgments, both corporall and spiritual. Hence God is said, Psal. 78.49 to send evil Angels among the Israelites: hence Pauls phrase, of delivering to Satan: