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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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Object. 2. Oh, but, saith another, if God would but deliver me out of it, yet I could be content to bear it: but I have an uncurable sickness, or I am like to live and dye in poverty, or disgrace, or the like distress.
Object. 2. Oh, but, saith another, if God would but deliver me out of it, yet I could be content to bear it: but I have an uncureable sickness, or I am like to live and dye in poverty, or disgrace, or the like distress.
I answer, 1. Is it nothing that he hath promised it shall work for thy Good? Rom. 8.28. and that with the affliction he will make a way to escape? that he will be with thee in it? and deliver thee in the fittest manner and season? 2. Is it not enough that thou art sure to be delivered at death? and that with so full an advancing deliverance? Oh what cursed Unbelief doth this discover in our hearts? That we would be more thankful to be turned back again, into the stormy tumultuous Sea of the World, then to be safely and speedily landed at our Rest! And would be gladder of a few years inferior mercies at a distance, then to enter upon the Eternal Inheritance with Christ? Do we call God our chief Good, and Heaven our Happiness? and yet is it no Mercy or Deliverance to be taken hence, and put into that possession?
I answer, 1. Is it nothing that he hath promised it shall work for thy Good? Rom. 8.28. and that with the affliction he will make a way to escape? that he will be with thee in it? and deliver thee in the fittest manner and season? 2. Is it not enough that thou art sure to be delivered at death? and that with so full an advancing deliverance? Oh what cursed Unbelief doth this discover in our hearts? That we would be more thankful to be turned back again, into the stormy tumultuous Sea of the World, then to be safely and speedily landed at our Rest! And would be gladder of a few years inferiour mercies at a distance, then to enter upon the Eternal Inheritance with Christ? Do we call God our chief Good, and Heaven our Happiness? and yet is it no Mercy or Deliverance to be taken hence, and put into that possession?