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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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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.
9. Most men are so clogged with a Laziness and Slothfulness of Spirit, that they will not be persuaded to be at the pains of an hours Examination of their own hearts. It requireth some labour and diligence to accomplish it throughly, and they will rather venture all then set about it.
9. Most men are so clogged with a Laziness and Slothfulness of Spirit, that they will not be perswaded to be at the paines of an hours Examination of their own hearts. It requireth some labour and diligence to accomplish it throughly, and they will rather venture all then set about it.
10. But the most common and dangerous impediment is that false Faith and Hope commonly called Presumption, which bears up the hearts of the most of the world, and so keeps them from suspecting their danger.