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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
THE SAINTS Everlasting REST. PART. III. › Chapter 6 › Section 26
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1 Quest. What manner of persons should those be, whom God hath chosen out to be Vessels of Mercy? and hath given them the very cream and quintessence of his blessings? when the rest of the world are passed by, and put off with common, and temporal, and left-hand-Mercies? They who have the Blood of Christ given them, and the Spirit for Sanctification, Consolation, and Preservation and the pardon of sins, and Adoption to Son-ship, and the guard of Angels, and the Mediation of the Son of God, and the special Love of the Father, and the Promise and Seal of Everlasting Rest! Do but tell me in good sadness, what kind of lives these men should live?
1 Quest. What manner of persons should those be, whom God hath chosen out to be Vessels of Mercy? and hath given them the very cream and quintescence of his blessings? when the rest of the world are passed by, and put off with common, and temporal, and left-hand-Mercies? They who have the Blood of Christ given them, and the Spirit for Sanctification, Consolation, and Preservation and the pardon of sins, and Adoption to Son-ship, and the guard of Angels, and the Mediation of the Son of God, and the special Love of the Father, and the Promise and Seal of Everlasting Rest! Do but tell me in good sadness, what kind of lives these men should live?
2 Quest. What manner of persons should those be, who have felt the smart of their negligence so much as the godly have done? In the new birth, in their several wounds and trouble of Conscience, ⟨p. 376⟩in their doubts and fears, in their sharp afflictions on body and state: They that have groaned and cried out so oft, under the sense and effects of their negligence, and are like enough to feel it again if they do not reform it, sure one would think they should be so slothful no more.
2 Quest. What manner of persons should those be, who have felt the smart of their negligence so much as the godly have done? In the new birth, in their several wounds and trouble of Conscience,