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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. IV.
4. Here is presupposed,1 a knowledge of the true ultimate End, and its excellency; for so the motion of the Rational Creature proceedeth:2 An unknown end, is no end; it is a contradiction. We cannot make that our end, which we know not, nor that our chief End, which we know not, or judg not, to be the chief Good. An unknown Good moves not to desire or endeavour. Therefore where it is not truly known, That God is this End, and containeth all good in him, there is no obtaining Rest.
4. HEre is presupposed,1 a knowledg of the true ultimate End, and its excellency; for so the motion of the Rational Creature proceedeth:2 An unknown end, is no end; it is a contradiction. We cannot make that our end, which we know not, nor that our chief End, which we know not, or judg not, to be the chief Good. An unknown Good moves not to desire or endeavor. Therefore where it is not truly known, That God is this End, and containeth all good in him, there is no obtaining Rest.
- 1§. 4.
- 2I speak all this of men of age converted by the Word, not of those sanctified in Infancy.