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 735
ofe thar are proilc to cxccfs or Daintinefs of Dyct, they noiUi(h their own difcafes, and arc led by the great glutton the Dcvil,whom I will not fear to call,Thc Belly-Devil, which indeed isthc worft and nioft pernicious of all Devils. And it is better be Happy then to have a Devil dwelling in you,… … SECT. 1. Houph 1 hope what is already Tpokcn, be nor unufefull,and that ic Will not by the Reader be caft afide j yet Imuft-tcl! you, that the main thing intended is ^et be-Iiind^ and that which I aimed at when 1 fet upon thisWork. I have obferved the Maxim, that my princi-pal end be laR in…
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