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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 8
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1BUT let us hear a little what it is that the flesh can object.
- 1§. 8.
1. Oh, saith one, I could bear any other Affliction save this: If God had touched me in any thing else, I could have undergone it patiently; but it is my dearest friend, or child, or wife, or my health it self, &c.
I Answer: It seemeth God hath hit the right vein, where thy most inflamed distempered blood did lie: It's his constant course to pull down mens Idols, and take away that which is dearer to them then himself. There it is that his Jealousy is kindled; and there it is that thy Soul is most endangered. If God should have taken from thee that which thou canst let go for him, and not that which thou canst not; or have afflicted thee where thou canst bear it, and not where thou canst not, thy Idol would neither have been discovered, nor removed: this would neither have been a sufficient Trial to thee, nor a Cure; but have confirmed thee in thy Soul-deceit and Idolatry.
I Answer: It seemeth God hath hit the right vein, where thy most inflamed distempered blood did lie: It's his constant course to pull down mens Idols, and take away that which is dearer to them then himself. There it is that his Jealousie is kindled; and there it is that thy Soul is most endangered. If God should have taken from thee that which thou canst let go for him, and not that which thou canst not; or have afflicted thee where thou canst bear it, and not where thou canst not, thy Idol would neither have been discovered, nor removed: this would neither have been a sufficient Tryal to thee, nor a Cure; but have confirmed thee in thy Soul-deceit and Idolatry.