The Saints' Everlasting Rest; Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory |
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... creatures , but also from all those be- ginnings , foretastes , and imperfect degrees which we have in this life . 3. I call it the estate of a Christian , where I mean only the sincere , regenerate , sanctified Christian , whose soul ...
... creatures , but also from all those be- ginnings , foretastes , and imperfect degrees which we have in this life . 3. I call it the estate of a Christian , where I mean only the sincere , regenerate , sanctified Christian , whose soul ...
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... creature proceed- eth . An unknown end is no end ; it is a contradiction . We cannot make that our end which we know not ; nor that our chief end which we know not , or judge not , to be the chief good . Therefore , where this is not ...
... creature proceed- eth . An unknown end is no end ; it is a contradiction . We cannot make that our end which we know not ; nor that our chief end which we know not , or judge not , to be the chief good . Therefore , where this is not ...
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... creature are but drops of this ocean , so all the glory of the blessed is comprised in their enjoyment of God ; and if there be any mediate joys there , they are but drops from this . If men and angels should study to speak the ...
... creature are but drops of this ocean , so all the glory of the blessed is comprised in their enjoyment of God ; and if there be any mediate joys there , they are but drops from this . If men and angels should study to speak the ...
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... creature , he hath kept this as his own divine prerogative , not communicable to any creature , viz . , to be the prime truth . Didst thou never look so long upon the Son of God , till thine eyes were dazzled with his astonishing glory ...
... creature , he hath kept this as his own divine prerogative , not communicable to any creature , viz . , to be the prime truth . Didst thou never look so long upon the Son of God , till thine eyes were dazzled with his astonishing glory ...
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... creatures " prepared for the devil and his angels : " but our joy is the joy of our Lord , even our Lord's own joy shall we enter . " And the same glory which the Father giveth him , doth the Son give them , " John xvii , 22 . " And to ...
... creatures " prepared for the devil and his angels : " but our joy is the joy of our Lord , even our Lord's own joy shall we enter . " And the same glory which the Father giveth him , doth the Son give them , " John xvii , 22 . " And to ...
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Page 294 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, Nor an old man that hath not filled his days: For the child shall die an hundred years old ; But the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Page 32 - I charge thee therefore, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdom ; preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
Page 143 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Page 178 - And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; 13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.
Page 251 - From lightning and tempest ; from plague, pestilence, and famine ; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 178 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 19 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 35 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we.
Page 34 - Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince, all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 53 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.