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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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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?
16. Consider, What a deal of guilt this neglect doth lay upon thy soul. First, Thou art guilty of the murder, and damnation of all those souls whom thou dost thus neglect. He that standeth by, and seeth a man in a pit, and will not pull him out if he can, doth drown him. And he that standeth by while thieves rob him, or murderers kill him, and will not help him if he can, is accessory to the fact. And so he that will silently suffer men to damn their souls, or will let Satan and the world deceive them, and not offer to help them, will certainly be Judged guilty of damning them. And is not this a most dreadful consideration? O Sirs, how many souls then have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neighbours and acquaintance are dead, in whom we discerned no signs of sanctification, and we never did once plainly tell them of it, or how to be recovered! If you had been the cause but of burning a mans house through your negligence, or of undoing him in the world, or of destroying his body, how would it trouble you as long as you lived? If you had but killed a man unadvisedly, it would much disquiet you. We have known those that have been guilty of murder, that could never sleep quietly after, nor have one comfortable day, their own consciences did so vex and torment them. O then what a heart mayest thou have, that hast been guilty of murdering such a multitude of precious souls? Remember this when thou lookest thy friend or carnal neighbour in the face: and think with thy self: Can I find in my heart, through