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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 18
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6. Another hinderance is, self-seeking, and self-minding. Men are all for themselves,1 and all mind their own things, but few the things of Christ and their brethren. Hence is that Cainish voice, Am I my brothers keeper? Every man must answer for himself. Hence also it is that a multitude of ignorant professors do think only, where they may enjoy the purest ordinances, and thither they will go over sea and land, or what way of discipline will be sweetest to themselves, and therefore are prone to groundless separation: But where they have the fairest opportunity to win the souls of others, or in what place or way they may do most good; these things they little or nothing regard. As if we had learned of the Monks, and were setting up their principles and practice, when we seem to oppose them.
6. Another hinderance is, self-seeking, and self-minding. Men are all for themselves,1 and all minde their own things, but few the things of Christ and their brethren. Hence is that Cainish voice, Am I my brothers keeper? Every man must answer for himself. Hence also it is that a multitude of ignorant professors do think only, where they may enjoy the purest ordinances, and thither they will go over sea and land, or what way of discipline will be sweetest to themselves, and therefore are prone to groundless separation: But where they have the fairest opportunity to win the souls of others, or in what place or way they may do most good; these things they little or nothing regard. As if we had learned of the Monks, and were setting up their principles and practice, when we seem to oppose them.
If these men had tried what some of their brethren have done, they would know, that all the purest ordinances and Churches will not afford that solid comfort, as the converting of a few sinners by our unwearied compassionate exhortations. Two men in a frosty season come where a company of people are ready to starve; the one of them laps himself, and taketh shelter, for fear lest he should perish with them; the other in pity falls to rub them, that