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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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6. It will multiply the sweetness of every mercy thou receivest, when thou art sure that all proceeds from Love, and are the beginnings and earnest of Everlasting Mercies: Thou wilt then have more comfort in a morsel of bread, then the world hath in the greatest abundance of all things.
7. How comfortably then mayst thou undergo all Afflictions? When thou knowest that he meaneth thee no hurt in it, but hath promised that All shall work together for thy Good;1 when thou art sure that he chasteneth thee, because he loveth thee, and scourgeth thee, because thou art a Son whom he will receive, and that out of very faithfulness he doth afflict thee, What a support must this be to thy heart? and how will it abate the bitterness of the Cup? Even the Son of God himself doth seem to take comfort from this Assurance, when he was in a manner forsaken for our sins; and therefore he cries out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And even the Prodigal under his guilt and misery doth take some Comfort in remembering that he hath a Father.
7. How comfortably then mayst thou undergo all Afflictions? When thou knowest that he meaneth thee no hurt in it, but hath promised that All shall work together for thy Good;1 when thou art sure that he chasteneth thee, because he loveth thee, and scourgeth thee, because thou art a Son whom he will receive, and that out of very faithfulness he doth afflict thee, What a support must this be to thy heart? and how will it abate the bitterness of the Cup? Even the Son of God himself doth seem to take comfort from this Assurance, when he was in a manner forsaken for our sins; and therefore he cries out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And even the Prodigal under his guilt and misery doth take some Comfort in remembring that he hath a Father.
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