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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 8 › Section 1
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Therefore will the mouths of the wicked be stopped for ever, and all the world shall acknowledge the Justice of God. Had the ungodly but returned before their life was expired, and been heartily willing to accept of Christ for their Saviour and their King, and to be saved by him in his way, and upon his most reasonable terms, they might have been saved.
Therefore will the mouths of the wicked be stopped for ever, and all the world shall acknowledg the Justice of God. Had the ungodly but returned before their life was expired, and been heartily willing to accept of Christ for their Saviour and their King, and to be saved by him in his way, and upon his most reasonable tearms, they might have been saved.
Object. But may not God be better then his Word, and save those that he doth not promise to save?
Answ. But not false of his word, in saving those whom he hath said he will not save. Mens souls are in a doleful case when they have no hope of Happiness, except the Word of God prove false. To venture a mans eternal salvation upon Hope that God will be better then his word, (that is in plain English, that the God of Truth will prove a liar) is somewhat beyond stark madness, which hath no name bad enough to express it.
Answ. But not false of his word, in saving those whom he hath said he will not save. Mens souls are in a doleful case when they have no hope of Happiness, except the Word of God prove false. To venture a mans eternal salvation upon Hope that God will be better then his word, (that is in plain English, that the God of Truth will prove a lyer) is somewhat beyond stark madness, which hath no name bad enough to express it.