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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. V.
4. I Add,1 That this Happiness consists in obtaining [the End] where I mean the ultimate and principal end, not any end secundum quid so called, subordinate, or less principal. Not the ⟨p. 8⟩end of conclusion, in regard of time; for so every man hath his end: But the end of Intention, which sets the Soul a work, and is its prime motive in all its actions. That the chief Happiness is in the enjoyment of this End, I shall fully show through the whole Discourse, and therefore here omit.
4. I Add,1 That this Happiness consists in obtaining [the End] where I mean the ultimate and principal end, not any end secundum quid so called, subordinate, or less principal. Not the ⟨p. 8⟩end of conclusion, in regard of time; for so every man hath his end: But the end of Intention, which sets the Soul a work, and is its prime motive in all its actions. That the chief Happiness is in the enjoyment of this End, I shall fully shew through the whole Discourse, and therefore here omit.
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