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 ...

* 1.1SECT. IV.

2. LEt us next then consider, how far short the learned Philoso∣phers have come of this. They that have spent all their days in most painful studies; having the strongest natural endow∣ments for to enable them, and the learned Teachers, the excellent Libraries, the bountiful incouragement, and countenance of Princes to further them; and yet after all this, are very Novices in all spiritual things. They cannot tell what the happiness of the Soul is, nor where that happiness shall be enjoyed; nor when, nor how long, nor what are the certain means to attain it; nor who they be that shall possess it. They know nothing how the world was made, nor how it shall end; nor know they the God who did create, and doth sustain it: but for the most of them, they multiply feighned Deities.

But I shall have occasion to open this more fully anon, under the last Argument.

Notes

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