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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. IX.
9. Here is presupposed also,1 as motion, so such motion as is rightly ordered and directed toward the end. Not all motion, labour, seeking, that brings to Rest. Every way leads not to this end; But he whose goodness hath appointed the end, hath in his wisdom, and by his sovereign authority, appointed the way. Our own invented ways may seem to us more wise, comely, equal, pleasant; ⟨p. 16⟩but that is the best Key that will open the Lock, which none but that of Gods appointing will do. Oh the pains that sinners take, and worldlings take, but not for this Rest! Oh the pains and cost that many an ignorant and superstitious soul is at for this Rest, but all in vain! How many have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge? Who being ignorant of Gods Righteousness, and going about to establish their own Righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the Righteousness of God: Nor known, That Christ is the end of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believeth? Rom. 10.2, 3, 4. Christ is the door, the only way, to this Rest. Some will allow nothing else to be called the way,2 lest it Derogate from Christ: The truth is, Christ is the only Way to the Father: Yet faith is the way to Christ; and Gospel Obedience, or Faith and Works, the way for those to walk in, that are in Christ. There be (as before) many ways requisite in Subordination to Christ, but none in Co-ordination with him. So then, it's only Gods way, that will lead to this end and Rest.
9. HEre is presupposed also,