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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 foretasts of it, by the help of meditation (1651)

Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 · London, Printed for Thomas Underhill, and Francis Tyton · leaf 1008

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ll lay together the feveralbranches of this method^ That they may reduce them to practice:I (hall here contract the whole into a brief fum, and lay it all be-fore you in a narrower compafs. But ft ill Reader, I wifli theeto remember, that it is the practice of a duty, that I am di-recting thee in;… … 5.x. 252 The Saints everlasting Reft. Part.4. efpecially in meditating on the joys of Heaven. To this end, Setapart one hour or half hour every day, wherein thou mayft lay a-fide all worldly thoughts, and with all poflible ferioufnefs and re-verence, as it thou were going to (peak with Cod himfelf,…

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