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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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6. Doth it not grieve thee to see the people of God so comfortable, when thou hast none thy self? and to think of the Glory which they shall inherit, when thou hast no assurance thy self of ever enjoying it?
7. What shift dost thou make to think of thy dying hour? Thou knowest it is hard by, and there's no avoiding it, nor any medicine found out that can prevent it: Thou knowest it is the King of terror, Job 18.14. and the very inlet to thine unchangeable state: The godly that have some assurance of their future welfare, have yet much ado to submit to it willingly, and find, that to dye comfortably is a very difficult work. How then canst thou think of it then without astonishment, who hast got no assurance of the Rest to come? If thou shouldst dye this day (and who knows what a day may bring forth, Prov. 27.1.) thou dost not know whether thou shalt go straight to Heaven or to Hell: And canst thou be merry till thou art got out of this dangerous state? Methinks that in Deut. 28.25, 26, 27. should be the looking-glass of thy heart.
7. What shift dost thou make to think of thy dying hour? Thou knowest it is hard by, and there's no avoyding it, nor any medicine found out that can prevent it: Thou knowest it is the King of terror, Job 18.14. and the very inlet to thine unchangeable state: The godly that have some assurance of their future welfare, have yet much ado to submit to it willingly, and find, that to dye comfortably is a very difficult work. How then canst thou think of it then without astonishment, who hast got no assurance of the Rest to come? If thou shouldst dye this day (and who knows what a day may bring forth,