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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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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?
9. Did not Peter, and James, and John see Moses also with Christ on the Mount? Yet the Scripture saith, Moses dyed. And is it likely that Christ did delude their senses, in showing them Moses, if he should not partake of that glory till the Resurrection?
9. Did not Peter, and James, and John see Moses also with Christ on the Mount? Yet the Scripture saith, Moses dyed. And is it likely that Christ did delude their senses, in shewing them Moses, if he should not partake of that glory till the Resurrection?
10. And is not that of Stephen as plain as we can desire? Lord Jesus receive my spirit. Sure if the Lord receive it, it is neither asleep, nor dead, nor annihilated: but it is where he is, and beholds his Glory.