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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
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.
As all Good whatsoever is comprised in God, and all in the creature are but drops of this Ocean: So all the Glory of the blessed is comprised in their enjoyment of God; and if there be any mediate Joys there, they are but drops from this. If men and Angels should study to speak the blessedness of that estate in one word, what can they say beyond this, That it is the nearest enjoyment of God? Say they have God, and you say they have all, that's worth a having. O the full Joys offered to a believer in that one sentence of Christs, I would not for all the world, that one verse had been left out of the Bible: Father, I will that those whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my Glory which thou hast given me, John 17.24. Every word full of Life and Joy. If the Queen of Sheba had cause to say of Solomons Glory, Happy are thy men, 1happy are these thy servants that stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom; then sure they that stand continually before God, and see his Glory, and the Glory of the Lamb, are somewhat more then happy: To them will Christ give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God, Rev. 2.7. And to eat of the hidden Manna, vers. 17. Yea, he will make ⟨p. 25⟩them Pillars in the Temple of God, and they shall go no more out; and he will write upon them the Name of his God, 2and the name of the City of his God, [New Jerusalem,] which cometh down out of heaven from his God, and his own New Name, Rev. 3.12. Yea more (if more may be) he will grant them to sit with him in his Throne, Rev. 3.21. These are they who come out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb; Therefore are they before the Throne of God, and serve him day and night in his Temple; and he that sitteth on the Throne shall dwell among them: And the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them, and lead them unto living fountains of water; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes,