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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
Part 2 › Chapter 12: An Advice to some more particularly to help others to this Rest.
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That Christ will thus by his word and spirit gather him a church our of all the world, which is his body, and spouse, and he their head and husband, and will be tender of them as the apple of his eyes, and preserve them from danger, and continue among them his presence and ordinances; and that the members of ⟨p. 261⟩this church must live together in entire love and peace, delighting themselves in GOD, and his worship, and the fore-thoughts of their everlasting happiness forbearing and forgiving one another, and relieving each other in need; and all men ought to strive to be of this society: yet will the visible churches be still mixed of good and bad. 20 That when the full number of these are called home, Christ will come down from heaven again, and raise all the dead, and set them before him to be judged; and all that have loved GOD, and believed in Christ, […] been willing that he should reign over them, and have improved their mercies in the day of grace, them he will justify, and sentence them to inherit everlasting glory; and those that were not such, he will condemn to everlasting fire: both which sentences shall be then executed accordingly.
That Christ will thus by his word and spirit gather him a church our of all the world, which is his body, and spouse, and he their head and husband, and will be tender of them as the apple of his eyes, and preserve them from danger, and continue among them his presence and ordinances; and that the members of ⟨p. 261⟩this church must live together in entire love and peace, delighting themselves in GOD, and his worship, and the fore-thoughts of their everlasting happiness forbearing and forgiving one another, and relieving each other in need; and all men ought to strive to be of this society: yet will the visible churches be still mixed of good and bad. 20 That when the full number of these are called home, Christ will come down from heaven again, and raise all the dead, and set them before him to be judged; and all that have loved GOD, and believed in Christ, 〈…〉 been willing that he should reign over them, and have improved their mercies in the day of grace, them he will justify, and sentence them to inherit everlasting glory; and those that were not such, he will condemn to everlasting fire: both which sentences shall be then executed accordingly.