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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
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.
DEFINITION.
1Rest is [The end and perfection of motion.] The Saints Rest here in Question is [The most happy estate of a Christian, having obtained the end of his course.]
1REst is [The end and perfection of motion.] The Saints Rest here in Question is [The most happy estate of a Christian, having obtained the end of his course.]
- 1Definit.
SECT. II.
11. I Call it the [estate] of a Christian, (though Perfection consists in Action as the Philosopher thinks) to note both the Active and Passive fruition, wherein a Christians blessedness lies, and the established continuance of both.
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