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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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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, ⟨p. 376⟩in their doubts and fears, in their sharp afflictions on body and state: They that have groaned and cryed 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 sloathful no more.
3 Quest. What manner of persons should these be in holy diligence, who have been so long convinced of the evil of laziness? and have confessed on their knees a hundred and a hundred times, both in public and in private? and have told God in prayer, how unexcuseably they have herein offended? Should they thus confess their sin, and yet commit it? as if they told God what they would do, as well as what they have done?
3 Quest. What manner of persons should these be in holy diligence, who have been so long convinced of the evil of laziness? and have confessed on their knees a hundred and a hundred times, both in publique and in private? and have told God in prayer, how unexcuseably they have herein offended? Should they thus confess their sin, and yet commit it? as if they told God what they would do, as well as what they have done?