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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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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.
15. And though it be a Prophetical obscure book, yet it seems to me, that those words in the Revelations do imply this, where John saw the souls under the Altar, Rev. 6.9. &c.
15. And though it be a Propheticall obscure book, yet it seemes to me, that those words in the Revelations do imply this, where John saw the souls under the Altar, Rev. 6.9. &c.