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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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13. In Jude 7. The Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are spoken of, as suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. And if the wicked do already suffer eternal fire, then no doubt but the godly do enjoy eternal blessedness. I know some understand the place, of that fire which consumed their bodies, as being a Type of the fire of ⟨p. 259⟩Hell: I will not be very confident against this exposition; but the text seemeth plainly to speak more.
13. In Jude 7. The Cities of Sodom and Gomorrha are spoken of, as suffering the vengeance of eternall fire. And if the wicked do already suffer eternall fire, then no doubt but the godly do enjoy eternall blessedness. I know some understand the place, of that fire which consumed their bodies, as being a Type of the fire of ⟨p. 259⟩Hell: I will not be very confident against this exposition; but the text seemeth plainly to speak more.
14. It is also observable, that when John saw his Glorious Revelations, he is said to be in the spirit, Revel. 1.10. & 4.2. and to be carried away in the spirit, Rev. 17.3. & 21.10. And when Paul had his Revelations, and saw things unutterable, he knew not whether it were in the body, or out of the body: All implying, that spirits are capable of these Glorious things, without the help of their bodies.