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 902
CHAP. VI. Qontaimng the Defcription of the great Duty ofHeavenly Contemplation. … SECT. I. Hough I hope what is already fpoken be not un-ufeful,and that it will not by the Reader be caftaiide, yet I muft tell you, that the main thingintended is yet behind , and that which I aimedat when I fet upon this Work. I have obfervedthe Maxim, that my principal end be Iaft in ex-ecution,…
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