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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. III. › Chapter 4 › Section 9
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.
The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven, with his mighty Angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. And 2 Thess. 2.12. That they all might be damned, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. So Rom. 2.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Or wilt thou believe it from the beloved Apostle, who was so taken up in Revelations, and saw it, as it were, in his visions? Why see then, Rev. 20.10, 15. They are said there to be cast into the lake of fire, and tormented day and night for ever. So Rev. 21.8. So 2 Pet. 2.17. Or wilt thou believe it from the mouth of Christ himself the judg? Why read it then, ⟨p. 330⟩Mat. 7.19. & 13.40, 41, 42, 49, 50. As therefore the Tares are gathered and burnt in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this world: the Son of man shall send forth his Angels, and they shall gather out of his Kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, &c. So Mat. 18.8, 9. So Mark 9.43, 44, 46, 48. Where he repeateth it three times over, Where their worm never dyeth, and their fire is not quenched. And Mat. 25.41, 46. Then shall he say to them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels: For I was, &c. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, and the righteous into life eternal.