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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 8
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.
SECT. VIII.1
- 1§. 8.
Having thus proved that there is certainly some written Word of God in the world. The last thing that I have to prove, is, That there is no other writing in the world but this can be it. And first, aThere is no other Book in the world that ever I heard of, that doth so much as claim this Prerogative and Dignity.b Mahomet calleth himself but a Prophet, he acknowledgeth the truth of most of the Scripture; and his Alcoran contradicteth the very ⟨p. 250⟩light of Nature. Aristotle, Plato, and other Philosophers acknowledge their Writings to be merely of their own study and invention. What book saith [Thus saith the Lord] and [This is the word of the Lord] but this? So that if it have no Competitor, there needs not much to be said.
HAving thus proved that there is certainly some written Word of God in the world. The last thing that I have to prove, is, That there is no other writing in the world but this can be it. And first, aThere is no other Book in the world that ever I heard of, that doth so much as claim this Prerogative and Dignity.b Mahomet calleth himself but a Prophet, he acknowledgeth the truth of most of the Scripture; and his Alcoran contradicteth the very