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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 7
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SECT. VII.
2. Wicked men also are great impediments to poor sinners when they should examine and discover their estates.1 1. Their Examples hinder much. When an ignorant sinner seeth all his friends and neighbours do as he doth, and live quietly in the same state with himself, yea the Rich and Learned as well as others, this is an exceeding great temptation to him to proceed in his security. 2. Also the merry company and pleasant discourse of these men, doth take away the thoughts of his Spiritual State, and doth make the understanding drunk with their sensual delight: so that if the Spirit had before put into them any jealousy of themselves, or any purpose to Try themselves, this Jovial company doth soon quench them all. 3. Also their continual discourse of nothing but matters of the world, doth damp all these purposes for self-trying, and make them forgotten. 4. Their railings also,2 and scorning at godly persons, is a very great impediment to multitudes of Souls, and possesseth them with such a prejudice and dislike of the way to Heaven, that they settle resolvedly in the way they are in. 5. Also their constant persuasions, allurements, threats, &c. hinder much. God doth scarce ever open the eyes of a poor sinner, to see that •ll is naught with him, and his way is wrong, but presently there is a multitude of Satan's Apostles ready to flatter him, and daub, and deceive, and settle him again in the quiet possession of his former Master. What, say they, do you make a doubt of your Salvation, who have lived so well, and done no body harm, and been beloved of all? God is merciful: and if such as you shall not be saved, God help a great many: What do you think is become of all your forefathers? and what will become of