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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
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3. Some are so Dead-hearted, that they perceive not how nearly it doth concern them, let us say what we can to them, they lay it not to heart, but give us the hearing, and there's an end.
3. Some are so Dead-hearted, that they perceive not how neerly it doth concern them, let us say what we can to them, they lay it not to heart, but give us the hearing, and there's an end.
4. Some are so possessed with Self-love and Pride, that they will not so much as suspect any such danger to themselves. Like a proud Tradesman who scorns the motion when his friends desire him to cast up his Books because they are afraid he will Break. As some fond Parents that have an over-weening conceit of their own Children, and therefore will not believe or hear any evil of them▪ such a fond Self-love doth hinder men from suspecting and trying their states.
5. Some are so guilty that they dare not try: They are so fearful that they shall•find their estates unsound, that they dare not search into them. And yet they dare venture them to a more dreadful Trial
5. Some are so guilty that they dare not try: They are so fearful that they shall•find their estates unsound, that they dare not search into them. And yet they dare venture them to a more dreadful Tryal