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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 8
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. VIII.
- 1§. 8.
DO not daub, or deal slightly with any; some will not tell their people plainly of their sins, because they are great men, and some because they are godly, as if none but the poor and the wicked should be plainly dealt with: Do not you so, but reprove them sharply (though differently, and with wisdom) that they may be sound in the Faith.1 When the Palgrave chose Pitiscus for his Household Chaplain, he charged him, that without fear he should discharge his duty, and freely admonish him of his faults as the Scriptures do require; Such encouragement from great ones, would embolden Ministers, and free themselves from the unhappiness of sinning unreproved. If Gentlemen would give no more thanks to Doegs and Accusers of the Ministers, then Wigandus his Prince did to that flattering Lawyer, who accused him for speaking to Princes too plainly, they would learn quickly to be silent; when they had been forced as Hamans themselves, to clothe Mordecai, and set him in honour. However, God doth sufficiently encourage us to deal plainly, He hath bid us speak and fear not; He promised to stand by us, and he will be our security; He may suffer us to be Anathema secundum dici (as Bueholtzer said) but not secundum esse; He will keep us, as he did Huss's heart from the power of the fire, though they did beat it, when they found it among the ashes; they may burn our bones, as Bucers and Phagius his, or they may raise lies of us when we are dead, as of Luther, Calvin, and Oecolampadius; but the soul feeleth not this, that is rejoicing with his Lord: In the mean time let us be as well learned in the Art of Suffering (as Zenophon) as they are in the Art of Reproaching: