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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 8
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. VIII.
13. BUT the greatest hinderances are in mens own hear•s.
- 1§. 8.
1. Some are so Ignorant that they know not what Self-Examination is, nor what a Minister means when he persuadeth them to Try themselves: Or they know not that there ⟨p. 399⟩is any Necessity of it; but think *every man is bound to Believe that God is his Father, and that his sins are pardoned, whether it be true or false; and that it were a great fault to make any Question of it: Or they do not think that Assurance can be attained; or that there is any such great differences betwixt one man and another; but that we are all Christians, and therefore need not to trouble our selves any further: Or at least they know not wherein the difference lies; nor how to set upon this searching of their hearts, nor to find out its secret motions, and to judge accordingly. They have as gross Conceits of that Regeneration which they must search for, as Nicodemus had, John 3.5. And when they should Try whether the Spirit be in them, they are like those in Act. 19.2. That knew not whether there were a Holy Ghost to be received or no.