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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- 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 16, 2024.
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they are ordained to eternal life first,* 1.3 and therefore beleeve; and not first beleeve and therefore elected.
2. When they are called according to his purpose,2 1.4 then it is certain to them by a certainty of promise also, as good as if they were named in that promise; for the promise is to Beleevers, which they may know themselves to be; and though it be yet upon condition of overcoming▪* 1.5 and abiding in Christ, and endu∣ring to the end, yet that condition being absolutely promised it still remaineth absolutely certain upon promise: And indeed, if Glory be ours onely upon a condition, which condition depends chiefly on our own wills; it were cold comfort to those that know what mans will is, and how certainly we should play the Prodigals with this, as we did with our first stock. But I have hitherto under∣stood, that, in the behalf of the Elect, Christ is resolved, and hath undertaken, for the working and finishing of their faith, and the full effecting his peoples salvation: and not onely gives us a (feigned) sufficient grace, not effectual, leaving it to our wills to make it effectual, as some think. So that though still the Promise of our Justification and Salvation be Conditional, yet God having mani∣fested his purpose of enabling us to fulfil those Conditions, he doth thereby shew us a Certainty of our Salvation both in his Promise and his Purpose.
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* 1.1
§. 4.
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1 1.2
Theirs by Purpose be∣fore conver∣sion.
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* 1.3
Acts 13.48.
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2 1.4
Theirs in Law-title or by promise, after conver∣sion.
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* 1.5
Quum aequili∣brium illud hoc u••um praestat juxta Armini∣um, ut redda•• salutem homi∣num ••em con∣tingentem, & libratane in an∣cipiti, isne rem tantam imp••••se affectasse di∣cendus est, qui vult esse collo catam in loco tam lubrico, ac veluti tenui filo penden∣tem, adco ut v••l levissimo moment•• impel∣latur ad perni∣ciem? Amyral, Desens. doctr. Calvini, pag. 115.