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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
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.
1. That you do not pretend necessity when there is none, out of a mere desire of teaching: There is scarce a more certain discovery of a proud heart, then to be forwarder, and more desirous to Teach, then to Learn: especially toward those that are fitter to Teach us.
1. That you do not pretend necessity when there is none, out of a meer desire of teaching: There is scarce a more certain discovery of a proud heart, then to be forwarder, and more desirous to Teach, then to Learn: especially toward those that are fitter to Teach us.
2. And when the Necessity of your superiors doth call for your advice, yet do it with all possible humility, and modesty, and meekness: Let them discern your reverence and submission to their superiority, in the humble manner of your addresses to them: Let them perceive, that you do it not out of a mere teaching humour,1 or proud self-conceitedness. An Elder must be admonished, but not rebuked. If a wife should tell her husband of his sin in a masterly railing language; or if a servant reprove his master, or a child his father in a saucy disrespective way, what good could be expected from such reproof? But if they should meekly and humbly open to him his sin and danger, and entreat him to bear with them in what God commandeth, and his misery requireth, and if they could by tears testify their sense of his case; What father, or master, or husband; could take this ill?
2. And when the Necessity of your superiors doth call for your advice, yet do it with all possible humility, and modesty, and meekness: Let them discern your reverence and submission to their superiority, in the humble maner of your addresses to them: Let them perceive, that you do it not out of a meer teaching humor,1 or proud self-conceitedness. An Elder must be admonished, but not rebuked. If a wife should tell her husband of his sin in a masterly railing language; or if a servant reprove his master, or a childe his father in a sawcie disrespective way, what good could be expected from such reproof? But if they should meekly and humbly open to him his sin and danger, and intreat him to bear with them in what God commandeth, and his misery requireth, and if they could by teares testifie their sense of his case; What father, or master, or husband; could take this ill?