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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 11 › Section 13
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SECT. XIII.
10. Lastly,1 Be sure that your Examples may Exhort, as well as your words. Let them see you constant in all the Duties that you persuade them to: Let them see in your lives that difference from sinners, and that excellency above the world, which you persuade them to in your speeches. Let them see by your constant Labours for Heaven, that you do indeed believe that which you would have them to believe. If you tell others of the admirable Joys of Heaven, and your selves do nothing but drudge for the world, and are as much taken up in striving to be rich, or as quarrelsome with your Neighbours in a case of commodity, as any others; who will then believe you? or who will be persuaded by you to seek the everlasting riches? Will they not rather think, that you persuade them to look after another world, and to neglect this, that so you might have the more of it to your self? Let not men see you proud, while you exhort them to be humble; nor to have a seared Conscience in one thing, while you would have theirs tender in another. An innocent life is a continual powerful reproof to the wicked: And the constant practice of a holy and heavenly life, is a constant disquietment to the Conscience of a Worldling, and a constant solicitation of him to change his course.
10. LAstly,1 Be sure that your Examples may Exhort, as well as your words. Let them see you constant in all the Duties that you perswade them to: Let them see in your lives that difference from sinners, and that excellency above the world, which you perswade them to in your speeches. Let them see by your constant Labors for Heaven, that you do indeed beleeve that which you would have them to beleeve. If you tell others of the admirable Joys of Heaven, and your selves do nothing but drudg for the world, and are as much taken up in striving to be rich, or as quarrelsom with your Neighbors in a case of commodity, as any others; who will then beleeve you? or who will be perswaded by you to seek the everlasting riches? Will they not rather think, that you perswade them to look after another world, and to neglect this, that so you might have the more of it to your self? Let not men see you proud, while you exhort them to be humble; nor to have a seared Conscience in one thing, while you would have theirs tender in another. An innocent life is a continual powerful reproof to the wicked: And the constant practice of a holy and heavenly life, is a constant disquietment to the Conscience of a Worldling, and a constant solicitation of him to change his course.