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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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8. Consider, What a Joy is it like to be in Heaven to you, to meet those there whom you have been means to bring thither! To see their faces, and join with them for ever in the praises of God, whom you were instruments to bring to the knowledge and obedience of Christ. What it will be then we know not: But sure according to our present temper, it would be no small Joy.
8. Consider, What a Joy is it like to be in Heaven to you, to meet those there whom you have been means to bring thither! To see their faces, and joyn with them for ever in the praises of God, whom you were instruments to bring to the knowledge and obedence of Christ. What it will be then we know not: But sure according to our present temper, it would be no small Joy.
9. Consider, how many souls have we drawn into the way of damnation, or at least hardened, or settled in it? And should we not now be more diligent to draw men to life? There is not one of us, but have had our companions in sin, especially in the days of our Ignorance and unregeneracy. We have enticed them, or encouraged them to Sabbath-breaking, drinking, or revellings, ⟨p. 497⟩or dancings, and stage plays, or wantonness, and vanities, if not to scorn and oppose the godly: We cannot so easily bring them from sin again, as we did draw them to it: Many are dead already without any change discovered, who were our companions in sin: we know not how many are and will be in hell that we drew thither, and there may curse us in their torments for ever. And doth it not beseem us then to do as much to save men, as we have done to destroy them? and be merciful to some, as we have been cruel to others?
9. Consider, how many souls have we drawn into the way of damnation, or at least hardened, or setled in it? And should we not now be more diligent to draw men to life? There is not one of us, but have had our companions in sin, especially in the dayes of our Ignorance and unregeneracy. We have enticed them, or encouraged them to Sabbath-breaking, drinking, or revellings,