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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: extracted from the works of Mr. Richard Baxter, by John Wesley, M.A. late fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.
Philadelphia: printed by Prichard & Hall, 1790
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.
CHAP. VI. The People of GOD described.
HAVING thus performed my first task of describing the saints rest: it remains that now I proceed to the second, and show you what these people of GOD are, and why so called; for whom this blessed rest remaineth.
HAVING thus performed my first task of describing the saints rest: it remains that now I proceed to the second, and shew you what these people of GOD are, and why so called; for whom this blessed rest remaineth.
Regeneration is the first and great qualification of the people of GOD. To be the people of GOD without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation; seeing we are are born ⟨p. 72⟩GOD'S enemies, we must be new-born his sons, or else remain his enemies still.
Christ hath spoken it with his mouth, That except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD. The greatest reformation of life, without this new life wrought in the soul, may procure our further delusion, but never our salvation.