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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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6 Quest. What manner of men should they be in Duty, who have received so much encouragement as we have done by our successes? Who have tasted such sweetness in diligent obedience, as doth much more then countervail all the pains? Who have so oft had experience of the wide difference between lazy and laborious Duty by their different Issues? Who have found all our lazy Duties unfruitful; and all our strivings and wrestlings with God successful? so that we were never importunate with God in vain? We who have had so many admirable National and Personal Deliverances upon urgent seeking; And have received almost all our solid Comforts in a way of close and constant Duty; How should we above all men ply our work?
7 Quest. What manner of men should they be, who are yet at such great uncertainties, whether we are Sanctified or Justified, or whether we are the Children of God or no, or what shall Everlastingly become of their Souls? as most of the godly, that I meet with, are? They that have discovered the excellency of the Kingdom, and yet have not discovered their interest in it, but discern a danger of perishing and losing all, and have need of that advice, Heb. 4.1. And have so many doubts to wrestle with daily as we have; How should such men bestir themselves in time?
7 Quest. What manner of men should they be, who are yet at such great uncertainties, whether we are Sanctified or Justified, or whether we are the Children of God or no, or what shall Everlastingly become of their Souls? as most of the godly, that I meet with, are? They that have discovered the excellency of the Kingdom, and yet have not discovered their interest in it, but discern a danger of perishing and losing all, and have need of that advice, Heb. 4.1. And have so many doubts to wrestle with dayly as we have; How should such men bestir themselves in time?