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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.
7. Some are so Resolved already never to change their present state, that they neglect Examination as a useless thing: Before they will turn so precise and seek a new way, when they have lived so long, and gone so far, they will put their Eternal state to the venture, come of it what will. And when a man is fully resolved to hold on his way, and not to turn back be it right or wrong, to what end should he enquire whether he b• right or no?
7. Some are so Resolved already never to change their present state, that they neglect Examination as a useless thing: Before they will turn so precise and seek a new way, when they have lived so long, and gone so far, they will put their E•ernal state to the venture, come of it what will. And when a man is fully resolved to hold on his way, and not to turn back be it right or wrong, to what end should he enquire whether he b• right or no?
8. Most men are so taken up with their worldly affairs and are so busy in driving the trade of providing for the flesh, that they cannot set themselves to the Trying of their title to Heaven: They have another kind of happiness in their eye which they are pursuing, which will not suffer them to make sure of Heaven.
8. Most men are so taken up with their worldly affairs and are so busie in driving the trade of providing for the flesh, that they cannot set themselves to the Trying of their title to Heaven: They have another kind of happiness in their eye which they are pursuing, which will not suffer them to make sure of Heaven.