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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 17
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SECT. XVII.
4. One thing more I advise you concerning this:1 If you would have Souls converted and saved by the Ordinances, Labour still to keep the Ordinances and Ministry in Esteem. No man will be much wrought on by that which he despiseth. The great causes of this contempt are, a perverted Judgment, and a Graceless heart. It is no more wonder for a Soul to loath the Ordinances that savoureth not their spiritual nature, nor seeth God in them, nor is throughly wrought on by them, then it is for a sick man to loath his food. Nor is it any wonder for a perverted understanding to make a Jest of God himself, much less to set light by his Ordinances. Oh what a rare blessing is a clear, sound, sanctified Judgment! Where this is wanting, the most hellish vice may seem a virtue, and the most sacred Ordinance of divine Institution may seem as the waters of Jordan to Naaman. If any enemies to Gods Ordinances assault you, I refer you to the reading of Mr Hen: Lawrence's late book for Ordinances.
4. ONe thing more I advise you concerning this:1 If you would have Souls converted and saved by the Ordinances, Labour still to keep the Ordinances and Ministry in Esteem. No man will be much wrought on by that which he despiseth. The great causes of this contempt are, a perverted Judgment, and a Graceless heart. It is no more wonder for a Soul to loath the Ordinances that savoureth not their spiritual nature, nor seeth God in them, nor is throughly wrought on by them, then it is for a sick man to loath his food. Nor is it any wonder for a perverted understanding to make a Jest of God himself, much less to set light by his Ordinances. Oh what a rare blessing is a clear, sound, sanctified Judgment! Where this is wanting, the most hellish vice may seem a vertue, and the most sacred Ordinance of divine Institution may seem as the waters of Jordan to Naaman. If any enemies to Gods Ordinances assault you, I refer you to the reading of Mr Hen: Lawrences late book for Ordinances.