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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 779

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