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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 8 › Section 1
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. I.
Having thus discovered the Impediments to Examination,1 I would presently proceed to direct you to the performance of it, but that I am ye• jealous whether I have fully prevailed with you wills; and whether you are indeed Resolved to set upon the Duty. I have found by long experience as well as from Scripture, That the main difficulty lieth in ⟨p. 416⟩bringing men to be willing, and to set themselves in good earnest to the searching of their hearts.
HAving thus discoverd the Impediments to Examination,1 I would presently proceed to direct you to the performance of it, but that I am ye• jealous whether I have fully prevailed with you wills; and whether you are indeed Resolved to set upon the Duty. I have found by long experience as well as from Scripture, That the main difficulty lieth in ⟨p. 416⟩bringing men to be willing, and to set themselves in good earnest to the searching of their hearts.
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Many love to hear and read of Marks and signs by which they may Try; but few will be brought to spend an hour in using them when they have them. They think they should have their Doubts resolved as soon as they do but hear a minister name some of these Signs and if that would do the work, then Assurance would be more common: But when they are informed that the work lies most upon their own hands, and what pains it must cost them to search their hearts faithfully, then they give up and will go no further.