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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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4. Consider, It was once thy own case. Thou wast once a slave of Satan thy self, and confidently didst go on in the way to condemnation. What if thou hadst been let alone in that way? Whither hadst thou gone? and what had become of thee? It was Gods Argument to the Israelites, to be kind to strangers, because themselves were sometime strangers in Egypt; so may it persuade you to show compassion to them that are strangers to Christ, and to the hopes and comforts of the Saints, because you were once as strange to them your selves.
4. Consider, It was once thy own case. Thou wast once a slave of Satan thy self, and confidently didst go on in the way to condemnation. What if thou hadst been let alone in that way? Whither hadst thou gone? and what had become of thee? It was Gods Argument to the Israelites, to be kinde to strangers, because themselves were sometime strangers in Egypt; so may it perswade you to shew compassion to them that are strangers to Christ, and to the hopes and comforts of the Saints, because you were once as strange to them your selves.
5. Consider, The Relation that thou standest in toward them. It is thy neighbour, thy brother, whom thou art bound to be tender of, and to love as thy self. He that loveth not his brother whom •e seeth daily,1 most certainly doth not love God whom he never saw: And doth he love his brother, that will stand by, and see him go to hell, and never hinder him?
5. Consider, The Relation that thou standest in toward them. It is thy neighbor, thy brother, whom thou art bound to be tender of, and to love as thy self. He that loveth not his brother whom •e seeth daily,1 most certainly doth not love God whom he never saw: And doth he love his brother, that will stand by, and see him go to hell, and never hinder him?