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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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11. Be sure to Record this Sentence, so passed, write it down: or at least write it in thy Memory: At such a time upon through Examination, I found my state to be thus or thus: This Record will be very useful to thee hereafter. If thou be ungodly: what a damp will it be to thy presumption and security, to go and read the Sentence of thy Misery under thy own hand? If thou be godly: what a help will it be against the next Temptation to doubting and fear, to go and read under thy hand this Record? Mayst thou not think; If at such a time I found the Truth of Grace, is it not likely to be now the same? and these my doubts to come from the Enemy of my Peace?
12. Yet would I not have thee so trust to once discovery, as to Try no more: Especially if thou have made any foul Defection from Christ, and played the backslider; See then that thou renew the Search again.
12. Yet would I not have thee so trust to once discovery, as to Try no more: Especially if thou have made any foul Defection from Christ, and play'd the backslider; See then that thou renew the Search again.
13. Neither would I have this hinder thee in the daily Search of thy ways; or of thy increase in Grace, and fellowship with Christ: It is an ill sign, and desperate vile sin, for a man when he thinks he hath found himself Gracious, and in a happy state, to let down his watch, and grow negligent of his heart and ways, and scarce look after them any more.
13. Neither would I have this hinder thee in the dayly Search of thy ways; or of thy increase in Grace, and fellowship with Christ: It is an ill sign, and desperate vile sin, for a man when he thinks he hath found himself Gracious, and in a happy state, to let down his watch, and grow negligent of his heart and ways, and scarce look after them any more.