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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.
2. And as the soul is thus convinced of the necessity of Christ, so also of his full sufficiency: he sees, though the creature cannot, and himself cannot, yet Christ can. Though the fig-leaves of our own unrighteous ⟨p. 78⟩righteous righteousness are too short to cover our nakedness, yet the righteousness of Christ is large enough: ours is disproportionable to the justice of the law, but Christ's doth extend to every tittle: his sufferings being a perfect satisfaction to the law, and all power in heaven and earth being given to him, he is now able to supply every of our wants, and to save to the uttermost all that come to him.
3. The soul is also here convinced of the perfect excellency of JESUS CHRIST, both as he is considered in himself, and as considered in relation to us; both as he is the only way to the Father, and as he is the end, being one with the Father. Before he knew Christ's excellency, as a blind man knows the light of the sun; but now, as one that beholdeth his glory.
And thus doth the Spirit convince the soul.