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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 3
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2. Also thou wilt think no labour or suffering too great to obtain it. And though the flesh may sometime shrink or draw back, yet ⟨p. 435⟩art thou resolved and content to go through all. Mat. 7.13. 2 Tim. 2.5. Rom. 8.17. Luk. 14.26, 27. 2 Tim. 2.12. Luk. 14.24.
2. Also thou wilt think no labor or suffering too great to obtain it. And though the flesh may sometime shrink or draw back, yet ⟨p. 435⟩art thou resolved and content to go through all. Mat. 7.13. 2 Tim. 2.5. Rom. 8.17. Luk. 14.26, 27. 2 Tim. 2.12. Luk. 14.24.
3. Also if thou be an heir of Rest, thy valuation of it will be so high, and thy affection to it so great, that thou wouldst not exchange thy Title to it, and hopes of it, for any worldly Good whatsoever. Indeed when the Soul is in doubts of enjoying it, perhaps it may possibly desire rather the continuance of an earthly happiness, then to depart out of the body with fears of going to Hell. But if he were sure that Heaven should be his own, he would desire to depart and to be with Christ, as being the best state of all. And if God would set before him an Eternity of Earthly pleasures and contents on one hand, and the Rest of the Saints on the other hand, and bid him take his choice; he would refuse the world, and choose this Rest: