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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 9 › 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.
1. Those words of Paul, 2 Corin. 5.8. Are so exceeding plain, that I yet understand not what tolerable exception can be made against them. ‖Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (For we walk by faith, not by sight) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body▪ and present with the Lord What can be spoken more plainly? so also the 1, 2, 3, & 4. verses of the same Chapter.
1. Those words of Paul, 2 Corin. 5.8. Are so exceeding plain, that I yet understand not what tolerable exception can be made agai•st them. ‖Therefore we are alwayes confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (For we walk by faith, not by sight) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body▪ and present with the Lord What can be spoken more plainly? so also the 1, 2, 3, & 4. verses of the same Chapter.
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2. As plain is that in *Philip. 1.23. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. What sense were in these words, if Paul had not expected to enjoy Christ till the Resurrection? Why should he be in a strait? Or desire to depart? Should he be with Christ ever the sooner for that? Nay, should he not have been loath to depart upon the very same grounds? For while he was in the flesh, he enjoyed something of Christ, but being departed (according to the Socinians doctrine) he should enjoy no thing of Christ, till the day of Resurrection.