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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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7. How else is it said, That we are come to the Mount Zion, the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of Angels, to the general Assembly and Church of the first born, which are written in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, Heb. 12.22, 23. Sure at the Resurrection the body will be made perfect as well as the spirit. To say (as Lushington doth) that they are said to be made perfect, because they are sure of it, as if they had it: is an evasion to grossly contradicting the Text, that by such commentaries he may as well deny any truth in Scripture: To make good which, he as much abuseth that of Philip. 3.12.
7. How else is it said, That we are come to the Mount Zion, the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of Angels, to the generall Assembly and Church of the first born, which are written in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, Heb. 12.22, 23. Sure at the Resurrection the body will be made perfect as well as the spirit. To say (as Lushington doth) that they are said to be made perfect, because they are sure of it, as if they had it: is an evasion to grosly contradicting the Text, that by such commentaries he may as well deny any truth in Scripture: To make good which, he as much abuseth that of Philip. 3.12.
8. Doth not Scripture tell us that Enoch and Elijah are taken up already? And shall we think they possess that Glory alone?
8. Doth not Scripture tell us that Henoch and Elias are taken up already? And shall we think they possess that Glory alone?