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The Saints' Everlasting Rest
The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is showed 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 forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...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 forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by Rob. White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, 1650
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. III.
13. A Distance is presupposed from this End; else there can be no motion towards it. This sad distance is the woeful case of all mankind since the fall: It was our God that we principally lost; and were shut out of his gracious presence. Though some talk of losing only a temporal, earthly, felicity; sure I am, it was God we fell from, and him we lost, and since said to be without him in the world; and there would have been no death, but for sin; and to enjoy God without death, is neither an earthly, nor temporal enjoyment: Nay, in all men at Age, here is supposed, not only a distance from God, but also a contrary motion: For sin hath not overthrown our Being, nor taken away our Motion; but ⟨p. 13⟩our well-being, and the Rectitude of our motion. When Christ comes with Regenerating, Saving Grace; he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal Ruin, and making hast towards hell; till, by conviction, he first bring them to a stand; and by conversion, turn first their hearts, and then their lives, sincerely to himself.
13. A Distance is presupposed from this End; else there can be no motion towards it. This sad distance is the woful case of all mankinde since the fall: It was our God that we principally lost; and were shut out of his gracious presence. Though some talk of losing onely a temporal, earthly, felicity; sure I am, it was God we fell from, and him we lost, and since said to be without him in the world; and there would have been no death, but for sin; and to enjoy God without death, is neither an earthly, nor temporal enjoyment: Nay, in all men at Age, here is supposed, not onely a distance from God, but also a contrary motion: For sin hath not overthrown our Being, nor taken away our Motion; but