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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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3. And plain enough is that of Christ to the thief: This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise. The dislocation of the word, [this day] is but a gross evasion.
4. And sure, if it be but a Parable, of the Rich man in hell, and Lazarus; yet it seems unlikely to me, that Christ would teach them by such a Parable, as seemed evidently to intimate and suppose the souls happiness or misery presently after death, if there were no such matter.
4. And sure, if it be but a Parable, of the Rich man in hell, and Lazarus; yet it seemes unlikely to me, that Christ would teach them by such a Parable, as seemed evidently to intimate and suppose the souls happiness or misery presently after death, if there were no such matter.
5. Doth not his Argument against the Sadducees, for the Resurrection, run upon this supposition, That (God being not the God of the dead, but of the living, therefore) Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were then living? i. e. in soul; and consequently should have their bodies raised at the Resurrection.
5. Doth not his Argument against the Sadduces, for the Resurrection, run upon this supposition, That (God being not the God of the dead, but of the living, therefore) Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were then living? i. e. in soul; and consequently should have their bodies raised at the Resurrection.