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 (1658)
Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 · London, Thomas Underhill and F. Tyton · leaf 640
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