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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 12 › Section 6
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.
1SECT. VI.
- 1§. 6.
5. Another sort that have special opportunity to this work, of helping others to heaven, is, The Ministers of the Gospel: As they have, or should have more ability then others, so it is the very work of their calling; and every one expecteth it at their hands, and will better submit to their teaching, then to other mens. I intend not these instructions so much to teachers, as to others, and therefore I shall say but little to them: and if all, or most Ministers among us were as faithful and diligent as some, I would say nothing. But because it is otherwise, let me give these two or three words of advice to my Brethren in this office.
5. ANother sort that have special opportunity to this work, of helping others to heaven, is, The Ministers of the Gospel: As they have, or should have more ability then others, so it is the very work of their calling; and every one expecteth it at their hands, and will better submit to their teaching, then to other mens. I intend not these instructions so much to teachers, as to others, and therefore I shall say but little to them: and if all, or most Ministers among us were as faithfull and diligent as some, I would say nothing. But because it is otherwise, let me give these two or three words of advice to my Brethren in this office.
1. Be sure that the recovering and saving of souls, be the main end of your studies & preaching. O do not propound any low and base ends to your selves. This is the end of your calling, let it be also the end of your endeavours.