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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 8
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4. What boldness and comfort then mayst thou have in prayer? When thou canst say, Our Father, in full Assurance; and knowest that thou art welcome and accepted through Christ, and that thou hast a promise to be heard when ever thou askest, and knowest that God is readier to grant thy requests then thou to move them; With what comfortable boldness mayst thou then approach the Throne of Grace?1 Especially when the case is weighty, and thy necessity great, this Assurance in prayer will be a sweet privilege indeed: A despairing Soul that feeleth the weight of Sin and Wrath, especially at a dying hour, would give a large price to be partaker of this Privilege, and to be sure that he might have Pardon and Life for the asking for.
4. What boldness and comfort then mayst thou have in prayer? When thou canst say, Our Father, in full Assurance; and knowest that thou art welcom and accepted through Christ, and that thou hast a promise to be heard when ever thou askest, and knowest that God is readier to grant thy requests then thou to move them; With what comfortable boldness mayst thou then approach the Throne of Grace?1 Especially when the case is weighty, and thy necessity great, this Assurance in prayer will be a sweet priviledg indeed: A despairing Soul that feeleth the weight of Sin and Wrath, especially at a dying hour, would give a large price to be partaker of this Priviledg, and to be sure that he might have Pardon and Life for the asking for.
- 1Heb. 10.22 19
5. This Assurance will give the Sacrament a sweet relish to thy Soul, and make it a refreshing feast indeed.