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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. III.
2. I Call it the [most happy] estate, to difference it,1 not only from all seeming happiness which is to be found in the enjoyment of creatures; but also from all those beginnings, foretastes, earns, first fruits, and imperfect degrees, which we have here in this life, while we are but in the way: It is the Chief Good, which the world hath so much disputed, yet mistaken or neglected; without which, the greatest confluence of all other good leaves a man miserable; and with the enjoyment of which, all misery is inconsistent.
2. I Call it the [most happy] estate, to difference it,1 not onely from all seeming happiness which is to be found in the enjoyment of creatures; but also from all those beginnings, foretastes, earns, first fruits, and imperfect degrees, which we have here in this life, while we are but in the way: It is the Chief Good, which the world hath so much disputed, yet mistaken or neglected; without which, the greatest confluence of all other good leaves a man miserable; and with the enjoyment of which, all misery is inconsistent.
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