The saints everlasting rest

1. Scripture tells us we may know, and that the saints before us have known their justification, and future salvation, 2 Cor. v. 1. Rom. viii. 36. Joh. xxi. 15. 1 Joh. v. 19. and iv. 13. and iii. 14, 24. and ii. 3. 5. Rom. viii. 14, 19. Eph. iii. 12. I refer you to the places for brevity. 2. If we may be certain of the premises, then may we also be certain of the conclusion. But here we may be certain of both the premises. For, 1. That whosoever believeth in Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life, is the voice of the gospel; and therefore that we may be sure of: that we are such believers, may be known by conscience and internal sense. 3. The scripture would never make such a wide difference between the children of GOD, and the children of the devil, and set forth the happiness of the one, and the misery of the other, and make this difference to run through all the veins of its doctrine, if a man cannot know which of these two states he is in. 4. Much less would the Holy Ghost bid us give all diligence to make our calling and election sure, if it could not be done, 2 Pet. i. 10. 5. And to what purpose should we be so earnestly urged to examine, and prove, and try ourselves, whether ⟨p. 169⟩we be in the faith, and whether Christ be in us, or we be reprobates? 1 Cor. xi. 28. and 1. Cor. xiii. 5. Why should we search for that which cannot be found? 6. How can we obey those precepts which require us to rejoice always? 1 Thes. v. 16. to call GOD out father,