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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 7 › Section 1
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1. I wonder how thou canst either think or speak of the dreadful God, without exceeding terror and astonishment, as long as thou art uncertain whether he be thy Father or thy Enemy, and knowest not but all his Attributes may be employed against thee. If his Saints must rejoice before him with trembling,1 and serve him in fear; If they that are sure to receive the unmoveable Kingdom must yet serve God with reverence and godly fear, because he is a consuming fire;2 How then should the remembrance of him be terrible to them that know not but this fire may for ever consume them?
1. I wonder how thou canst either think or speak of the dreadful God, without exceeding terror and astonishment, as long as thou art uncertain whether he be thy Father or thy Enemy, and knowest not but all his Attributes may be imployed against thee. If his Saints must rejoyce before him with trembling,1 and serve him in fear; If they that are sure to receive the unmoveable Kingdom must yet serve God with reverence and godly fear, because he is a consuming fire;2 How then should the remembrance of him be terrible to them that know not but this fire may for ever consume them?
2. How dost thou think without trembling upon Jesus Christ? when thou knowest not whether his blood hath purged thy Soul or not? and whether he will condemn thee or acquit thee in Judgment; nor whether he be set for thy rising or thy fall,