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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 17
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SECT. XVII.
18. Another great and too common Cause of Doubting and Discomfort, is, The secret maintaining of some known sin. When a man liveth in some unwarrantable practise, and God hath oft touched him for it, and Conscience is galled, and yet he continueth it;2 It is no wonder if this person want both Assurance and Comfort. One would think that a Soul that lieth under the fears of Wrath, and is so tender as to tremble and complain, should be as tender of sinning, and scarcely adventure upon the appearance of evil: And yet sad experience telleth us that it is frequently otherwise: I have known too many such, that would complain and yet sin, and accuse themselves, and yet sin still, yea and despair, and yet proceed in sinning; and all Arguments and means could not keep them from the wilful committing of that sin again and again, which yet they did think themselves would prove their destruction. Yea some will be carried away with those sins which seem most contrary to their dejected temper. I have known them that would fill mens ears with the constant lamentations of their miserable state, and despairing accusations against themselves, as if they had been the most humble people in the world; and yet be as passionate in the maintaining their innocency when another accuseth them, and as intolerably peevish, and tender of their own reputation in any thing they are blamed for, as if they were the proudest persons on earth; still denying or extenuating every disgraceful fault that they are charged with.
18. ANother great and too common Cause of Doubting and Discomfort, is, The secret maintaining of some known sin. When a man liveth in some unwarrantantable practise, and God hath oft touched him for it, and Conscience is galled, and yet he continueth it;