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 ...
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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 ...
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Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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London :: Printed by Rob. White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton ...,
1650.
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Devotional literature.
Heaven.
Future life.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27017.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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SECT. XIV.
5. ANother Cause of the trouble of their Souls is,* 1.1 Their expect∣ing a greater measure of Assurance then God doth usually bestow upon his people. Most think, as long as they have any doubting they have no Assurance: They consider not that there are many degrees of Infallible Certainty below a perfect or an un∣doubting Certainty. They must know, that while they are here they shall Know but in part: They shall be imperfect in their Knowledg of Scripture, which is their Rule in Trying; and imper∣fect
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in the Knowledg of their own obscure deceitful hearts. Some strangeness to God and themselves there will still remain: Some darkness will over-spread the face of their Souls: Some Unbelief will be making head against their Faith: And some of their grie∣vings of the Spirit will be Grieving themselves and making a breach in their Peace and Joy. Yet as long as their Faith is prevailing, and their Assurance doth tread down and subdue their Doubtings, though not quite expel them, they may walk in Comfort, and maintain their Peace. But as long as they are resolved to lie down in sorrow till their Assurance be perfect, their days on Earth must then be days of sorrow.
Notes
* 1.1
§. 14. God wil keep the rich store of consistent and abiding comforts till the great day, that when all the family shall come together, he may pour out the fulness of his hidden treasures on them: We are now in the morning of the day, the feast is to come; a breakefast must serve, to stay the stomack, till the King of Saints with all his friends sit down together. Simonds Deserted Soul. pag. 507.