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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. VIII.
IF I should quote all the Scriptures that plainly prove this,1 I should transcribe a great part of the Bible: I will bring none out of the Old Testament, for I know not whether their Authority will here be acknowledged: But I desire the contrary minded,2 whose consciences are tender of abusing Scripture, and wresting it from the plain sense, to study what tolerable interpretation can be given of these following places, which will not prove, that Life and Salvation may be, yea must be the end of Duty. Joh 5.39, 40. Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. Mat. 11.12. The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. Mat. 7.13. Luk. 13.24. Strive to enter in at the strait gate. Phil. 2.12. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Rom. 2.7, 10. To them, who by patient continuance in well doing, seek for glory, and honour, and immortality, eternal life; Glory, honour and peace to every man that worketh good, &c. 1 Cor. 9.24. So run, that you may obtain. 2 Tim. 2.5. A man is not crowned, except he strive lawfully.