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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
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. XII.
112. Lastly, here is presupposed, painfulness and weariness in our motion. This ariseth not from any evil in the work or way; for Christs yoke is easy, his burden light, and his commands not grievous: But 1. From the opposition we meet with. 2. The ⟨p. 19⟩contrary principles still remaining in our nature, which will make us cry out, O wretched men, Rom. 7.24. 3. The weakness of our graces, and so of our motion: Great labour, where there is a suitable strength, is a pleasure; but to the weak, how painful! With what panting and weariness doth a feeble man ascend that hill, which the sound man runs up with ease! We are all, even the best, but feeble. An easy, dull profession of Religion, that never encountereth with these difficulties and pains, is a sad sign of an unsound heart. Christ indeed hath freed us from the Impossibilities of the Covenant of Works, and from the burden and yoke of Legal Ceremonies, but not from the difficulties and pains of Gospel duties.
112. LAstly, here is presupposed, painfulness and weariness in our motion. This ariseth not from any evil in the work or way; for Christs yoke is easie, his burden light, and his commands not grievous: But 1. From the opposition we meet with. 2. The ⟨p. 19⟩contrary principles still remaining in our nature, which will make us cry out, O wretched men, Rom. 7.24. 3. The weakness of our graces, and so of our motion: Great labour, where there is a suitable strength, is a pleasure; but to the weak, how painful! With what panting and weariness doth a feeble man ascend that hill, which the sound man runs up with ease! We are all, even the best, but feeble. An easie, dull profession of Religion, that never encountereth with these difficulties and pains, is a sad sign of an unsound heart. Christ indeed hath freed us from the Impossibilities of the Covenant of Works, and from the burden and yoke of Legal Ceremonies, but not from the difficulties and pains of Gospel duties.