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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
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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.
2. As plain is that in *Philip. 1.23. For I am in a streight 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 streight? 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.
- *Crotius his fancy, •hat to be with Christ is no more then to be Christi depositum, is evidently vain: for so to be with Christ, would not be best of all, seeing that our mere deliverance from present sufferings is not so great a good, as our present life in the service and enjoyment of God in his ordinances and mercies, though accompanied with imperfection, and afflictions; Except he take a stone or a carcass to be happier then a man.Crotius his fancie, •hat to be with Christ is no more then to be Christi depositum, is evidently vain: for so to be with Christ, would not be best of all, seeing that our meer deliverance from present sufferings is not so great a good, as our present life in the service and enjoyment of God in his ordinances and mercies, though accompanied with imperfection, and afflictions; Except he take a stone or a carkass to be happier then a man.