A27017:1223
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
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.
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.
14. Neither would I have thee give over in discouragement, if ⟨p. 433⟩thou canst not at once or twice, or ten times trying, discover thy Case: But follow it on till thou hast discovered. If one hours labour will not serve, take another: If one day, or month, or year be too little; follow it still. If one Min•ster cannot direct thee sufficiently, go to another. The Issue will answer all thy pains. There is no sitting down discouraged in a work that must be done.
14. Neither would I have thee give over in discouragement, if ⟨p. 433⟩thou canst not at once or twice, or ten times trying, discover thy Case: But follow it on till thou hast discovered. If one hours labor will not serve, take another: If one day, or moneth, or year be too little; follow it still. If one Min•ster cannot direct thee sufficiently, go to another. The Issue will answer all thy pains. There is no sitting down discouraged in a work that must be done.