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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 12
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Let us next hear what is usually objected against this by negligent men.
LEt us next hear what is usually objected against this by negligent men.
Object. 1. We do not see but those children prove as bad as others, that are taught the Scriptures and brought up so holily: And those prove as honest men and good neighbours, that have none of this ado with them.
Object. 1. We do not see but those children prove as bad as others, that are taught the Scriptures and brought up so holily: And those prove as honest men and good neighbors, that have none of this ado with them.
Answ. 1. O who art thou man that disputest against God? Hath God charged you to teach your children diligently his word, speaking of it as you sit at home, and as you walk abroad, as you lye down and as you rise up, Deut. 6.6, 7, 8. and dare you reply that it is as good let it alone? Why this is to set God at defiance; and as it were to spit in his face, and give him the lye. VVill you take it well at your servants, if when you command them to do a thing, they should return you such an answer, that they do not see but it were as good let it alone? Wretched worm! darest thou thus lift up thy head against the Lord that made thee and must judg thee? Is it not he that commandeth thee? If thou dost not believe that this Scripture is his word, thou dost not believe in Jesus Christ: for thou hast nothing else to tell thee that there is a Christ. And if thou do believe that this is the word of God, how darest thou say, It is as good disobey it? This is devilish pride indeed, when such sottish sinful dust shall think themselves wiser then the living God, & take upon them to reprove and cancel his word.