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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 9 › 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.
1I Will not stand here to lay down the Directions necessary for preparation to this Duty, because you may gather them from what is said concerning the Hinderances: For the Contraries of those Hinderances will be most necessary Helps. Only before you set upon it, I advise you moreover to the Observation of these Rules. 1. Come not with too peremptory Conclusions of your selves before-hand. Do not Judg too confidently before you Try. Many Godly dejected Souls come with this Pre-judging to the work, concluding certainly that their state is Miserable before they have Tried it: And most wicked men on the contrary side do conclude most confidently that their state is good, or tolerable at the least. No wonder if these both miscarry in Judging, when they pass the Sentence before the Trial.
1I Will not stand here to lay down the Directions necessary for preparation to this Duty, because you may gather them from what is said concerning the Hinderances: For the Contraries of those Hinderances will be most necessary Helps. Only before you set upon it, I advise you moreover to the Observation of these Rules. 1. Come not with too peremptory Conclusions of your selves before-hand. Do not Judg too confidently before you Try. Many Godly dejected Souls come with this Pre-judging to the work, concluding certainly that their state is Miserable before they have Tryed it: And most wicked men on the contrary side do conclude most confidently that their state is good, or tolerable at the least. No wonder if these both miscarry in Judging, when they pass the Sentence before the Tryal.
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