A27017:1441
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 11
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.
2. It is a duty that you owe, your children in point of Justice; from you they received the defilement and misery of their natures; and therefore you owe them all possible help for their recovery▪ If you had but hurt a stranger, yea, though against your will, you would think it duty to help to cure him.
2. It is a duty that you ow, your children in point of Justice; from you they received the defilement and misery of their natures; and therefore you ow them all possible help for their recovery▪ If you had but hurt a stranger, yea, though against your will, you would think it duty to help to cure him.
3. Consider how near your children are to you, and then you will perceive, that from this Natural Relation also, they have interest in your utmost help: your children are, as it were, parts of your selves; If they prosper when you are dead, you take it almost as if you lived and prospered in them. If you labour never so much, you think it not ill bestowed, nor your buildings, or purchases too dear, so that they may enjoy them when you are dead: and should you not be of the same mind for their everlasting Rest?
3. Consider how neer your children are to you, and then you will perceive, that from this Natural Relation also, they have interest in your utmost help: your children are, as it were, parts of your selves; If they prosper when you are dead, you take it almost as if you lived and prospered in them. If you labor never so much, you think it not ill bestowed, nor your buildings, or purchases too dear, so that they may enjoy them when you are dead: and should you not be of the same minde for their everlasting Rest?