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 16, 2024.
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To my dearly beloved Friends, The Inhabitants of BRIDGNORTH, Both Magistrates and People. Richard Baxter Devoteth this Part of this TREATISE.
In Testimony of his unfeigned love to them, who were the first, to whom he was sent (as fixed) to publish the Gospel. And in thankfulness to the Divine Majesty, who there priviledged and protected him.
HUmbly beseeching the God of Mer∣cy, both to save them from that spirit of Pride, Separation, and Le∣vity, which hath long been work∣ing among them; and also to awake them throughly from their negligence and security, by his late heavy judgments on them: And that as the flames of War have consumed their houses, so the Spirit of God may consume the
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sin that was the cause: And by those flames they may be effectually warned to prevent the everlasting flames: And that their new-built houses may have new-born Inhabitants: And that the next time God shall search and try them, he may not finde one house among them, where his Word is not daily studied and obeyed, and where they do not fervently call upon his Name.