A27017:699
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 8 › Section 1
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.
1SECT. I.
- 1§. 1.
IT may here be expected, that as I have proved, That this Rest remaineth for the people of God, so I should now prove, that it remaineth only for them, and that the rest of the world shall have no part in it. But the Scripture is so full and plain in this, that I suppose it needless to those who believe Scripture. Christ hath resolved, that those who make light of him, and the offers of his Grace,1 shall never taste of his Supper; And that without holiness none shall see God: And that except a man be regenerate and born again, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. That he that believes not, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him: That no unclean person, 2nor covetous, nor railer, nor drunkard, &c. shall enter into the Kingdom of Christ, and of God, Ephes. 5.4, 5. That the wicked shall be turned into hell, 3and all they that forget God: That all they shall be damned that obey not the Truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thes. 2.12. That Christ will come in ⟨p. 253⟩flaming fire, 4to take vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. And Christ himself hath opened the very manner of their process in judgment, and the sentence of their condemnation to eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his Angels,