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 193
cribingand explicating the Saints Reft, it remains, thatnow I proceed unto the fecond, and ftiew youwhat thefe [_Peopte ofCjod^w:, and why fo cal-led ; for whom this Bleflfcd Reft remaincth. AndI fhallfute myfpeech unto the quality of thefubjeft. While I was in the Mouni,! felt it was good being… … Part. i. The Saints evcrUfling Reft. what was there to befceri,Icou!d have been contented to havebuilt me a Tabernacle there: Can a ptofpect of that happy Landbe tedious? or a difcourfe of eternity be too long? except icfhould detain us from actual! poffeflion, and our ablence move nsto impatiency.…
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