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 559
themain caufe is in this bodily diftemper. The chief part of the cure |of thefe men mud be upon the body, becaufe there is the chiefpart of the difeafe. And thus I have (hewed you the chief caufes, why fo manyChriftians do injoy fo little Aflurance and Confolation. ■ ; —W ■ ——>- Yyy 3 Chap! 169… … SECT. I. Aving thus discovered the Impediments to Exami-nation,! would prefently proceed to dired: you tothe performance of it, but that I am yet jealouswhether I have fulJy prevailed with your wils;andwhether you are indeed Refolved to fet upon theDuty. I have found by long experience as well…
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