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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.
SECT. V.
15. This Rest containeth A Sweet and constant Action of all the Powers of the Soul and Body in this fruition of God. It is not the Rest of a stone, which ceaseth from all motion, when it attains the Centre. The Senses themselves (as I judg) are not only Passive in receiving their object, but partly Passive, and partly Active. Whether the external Senses, such as now we have, shall be continued and employed in this work,1 is a great doubt. For some of them, it's usually acknowledged, they shall cease, because their Being importeth their use, and their use implieth our estate of Imperfection: As there is no use for eating and drinking, so neither for the taste. But for other Senses the Question will be harder: For Job saith, I shall see him with these eyes.
15. THis Rest containeth A Sweet and constant Action of all the Powers of the Soul and Body in this fruition of God. It is not the Rest of a stone, which ceaseth from all motion, when it attains the Center. The Senses themselves (as I judg) are not only Passive in receiving their object, but partly Passive, and partly Active. Whether the external Senses, such as now we have, shall be continued and imployed in this work,1 is a great doubt. For some of them, it's usually acknowledged, they shall cease, because their Being importeth their use, and their use implyeth our estate of Imperfection: As there is no use for eating and drinking, so neither for the taste. But for other Senses the Question will be harder: For Job saith, I shall see him with these eyes.