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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 10 › Section 2
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SECT. II.
1. Consider then,1 That Labour and Trouble are the common way to Rest, both in the course of Nature and of Grace. Can there possibly be Rest without Motion and Weariness? Do you not Travel and Toil first, and then rest you afterwards? The day for Labour goes first, and then the night for Rest doth follow. Why should we desire the course of Grace to be perverted, any more then we would do the course of Nature? seeing this is as perfect and regular as the other? God did once dry up the Sea to make a passage for his people: and once make the Sun in the Firmament to stand still: But must he do so always? or as oft as we would have him? It is his established Decree, That through many tribulations we must enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, Act. 14.22. And that if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him, 2 Tim. 2.12. *And what are we, that Gods Statutes should be reversed for our pleasure?
1. COnsider then,1 That Labor and Trouble are the common way to Rest, both in the course of Nature and of Grace. Can there possibly be Rest without Motion and Weariness? Do you not Travel and Toyl first, and then rest you afterwards? The day for Labor goes first, and then the night for Rest doth follow. Why should we desire the course of Grace to be perverted, any more then we would do the course of Nature? seeing this is as perfect and regular as the other? God did once dry up the Sea to make a passage for his people: and once make the Sun in the Firmament to stand still: But must he do so always? or as oft as we would have him? It is his established Decree, That through many tribulations we must enter into the Kingdom of Heaven,