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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. XI. An Exhortation to those that have got Assurance of this Rest, or title to it, that they would do all that possibly they can to help others to it also. The fifth Use.
CHAP. XI. An Exhortation to those that have got Assurance of this Rest, or title to it, that they would do all that possibly they can to help others to it also. The fifth Vse.
SECT. I.
1Hath God set before us such a glorious prize as this Everlasting Rest of the Saints is? And hath he made man capable of such an unconceivable Happiness? Why then do not all the children of this Kingdom bestir themselves more to help others to the enjoyment of it? Alas, how little are poor Souls about us, beholden to the most of us? We see the Glory of ⟨p. 459⟩the Kingdom; and they do not: We see the misery and torment of those that miss of it; and they do not: We see them wandering quite out of the way, and know that if they hold on, they can never come there▪ and they discern not this themselves: And yet we will not set upon them seriously, and show them their danger and error, and help to bring them into the way that they may live! Alas, how few Christians are there to be found, that live as men that are made to do good, and that set themselves with all their might to the saving of Souls! No thanks to us if Heaven be not empty; and if the Souls of our brethren perish not for ever.