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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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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.
15. Lastly, above all take heed, if thou find thy self to be yet unregenerate, that thou do not conclude of thy Future estate by thy present: nor say, Because I am ungodly, I shall dye so: or because I am an Hypocrite, I shall continue so. No: thou hast another work to do: And that is, To resolve presently to cleave to Christ, and break off thy Hypocrisy, and thy Wickedness. If thou find that thou hast been all this while out of the way, do not sit down in despair; but make so much the more haste to turn into it. If thou have been an Hypocrite, or ungodly person all thy life, yet is the promise offered thee by Christ; and he tendereth himself to be thy Lord and Saviour: Neither canst thou possibly be so Willing to Accept of him, as he is to Accept thee. Nothing but thy own unwillingness can keep thy Soul from Christ, though thou hast hitherto abused him, and dissembled with him.