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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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10. Labour to get thy heart kindly Affected with its discovered condition, according to the sentence passed on it. Do not think it enough to know: but labour to feel, what God hath made thee see. If thou find thy self undoubtedly graceless, Oh get this to thy heart; and think what a doleful Condition it is: To be an Enemy to God! to be unpardoned! unsanctified! and if thou shouldst so dye, to be Eternally damned! One would think such a thought should make a heart of stone to quake! On the contrary: If thou find thy self renewed and sanctified indeed; Oh get this warm and close to thy heart. Bethink thy self; What a blessed state the Lord hath brought thee into! To be his Child! his Friend! to be pardoned, justified, and sure to be saved! Why what needest thou fear? but sinning against him? Come war, or plague, or sickness, or death, thou art sure they can but thrust thee into Heaven.
10. Labor to get thy heart kindly Affected with its discovered condition, according to the sentence passed on it. Do not think it enough to know: but labor to feel, what God hath made thee see. If thou finde thy self undoubtedly graceless, Oh get this to thy heart; and think what a doleful Condition it is: To be an Enemy to God! to be unpardoned! unsanctified! and if thou shouldst so dye, to be Eternally damned! One would think such a thought should make a heart of stone to quake! On the contrary: If thou finde thy self renewed and sanctified indeed; Oh get this warm and close to thy heart. Bethink thy self; What a blessed state the Lord hath brought thee into! To be his Childe! his Friend! to be pardoned, justified, and sure to be saved! Why what needest thou fear? but sinning against him? Come war, or plague, or sickness, or death, thou art sure they can but thrust thee into Heaven.
Thus follow these Meditations, till they have left their impression on thy heart.