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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
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.
8. Here is presupposed before Rest,1 an Actual Motion; Rest is the end of Motion. No Motion, no Rest. Christianity is not a sedentary profession and employment; Nor doth it consist in mere Negatives. It is for not feeding, not clothing, &c. that Christ condemns. Not doing good, is not the least evil; sitting still will lose you Heaven, as well as if you run from it. It's a great Question, Whether the elicit Acts of the Will are by Motion, or by subitaneous mutation? But its a Logomachy.
8. HEre is presupposed before Rest,1 an Actual Motion; Rest is the end of Motion. No Motion, no Rest. Christianity is not a sedentary profession and employment; Nor doth it consist in meer Negatives. It is for not feeding, not clothing, &c. that Christ condemns. Not doing good, is not the least evil; sitting still will lose you Heaven, as well as if you run from it. It's a great Question, Whether the elicit Acts of the Will are by Motion, or by subitaneous mutation? But its a Logomachy.
- 1§. 8.