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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 2
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7. Let not thy Heart trifle away the Time, when it should be diligently at the work: Put the Question to it seriously: Is it thus and thus with me, or no? Force it here to an Answer: suffer it not to be silent: nor to jangle and think of other matters: If the Question be hard, through the darkness of thy Heart; yet do not give it over so: but search the closer: and study the case the more exactly: And if it be possible, let not thy Heart give over, till it have Resolved the Question, and told thee off or on, in what case thou art: Ask it strictly (as Joseph examined his Brethren, Gen. 43.7.) how it stands affected: Do as David, Psal. 77.6. My spirit made Diligent Search: If thy Heart strive to break away ⟨p. 431⟩before thou art resolved; wrestle with it, till thou hast prevailed, and say, I will not let thee go, till thou hast Answered. He that can prevail with his own Heart, shall also be a prevailer with God.
7. Let not thy Heart trifle away the Time, when it should be diligently at the work: Put the Question to it seriously: Is it thus and t•us with me, or no? Force it here to an Answer: suffer it not to be silent: nor to jangle and think of other matters: If the Question be hard, through the darkness of thy Heart; yet do not give it over so: but search the closer: and study the case the more exactly: And if it be possible, let not thy Heart give over, till it have Resolved the Question, and told thee off or on, in what case thou art: Ask it strictly (as Joseph examined his Brethren, Gen. 43.7.) how it stands affected: Do as David, Psal. 77.6. My spirit made Diligent Search: If thy Heart strive to break away ⟨p. 431⟩before thou art resolved; wrestle with it, till thou hast prevailed, and say, I will not let thee go, till thou hast Answered. He that can prevail with his own Heart, shall also be a prevailer with God.