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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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2. But alas, you know not what honesty is, when you say, that the ignorant are as honest as others: You think those are the honestest men, that best please you: But I know those are the most honest, that best please God. Christ saith in Luk 8.15. that an honest heart is that which keepeth the word of God; and you say, they are as honest that reject it. God made men to please himself, and not to please you: And you may know by his Laws who please him best. The Commandments have two Tables; and the first is, Thou shalt love the Lord with all thy heart: and the second, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self. First seek the Kingdom of God, and his Righteousness, Mat. 6.33.
2. But alas, you know not what honesty is, when you say, that the ignorant are as honest as others: You think those are the honestest men, that best please you: But I know those are the most honest, that best please God. Christ saith in Luk 8.15. that an honest heart is that which keepeth the word of God; and you say, they are as honest that reject it. God made men to please himself, and not to please you: And you may know by his Laws who please him best. The Commandments have two Tables; and the first is, Thou shalt love the Lord with all thy heart: and the second, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self. First seek the Kingdom of God, and his Righteousness, Mat. 6.33.
3. And what if some prove naught that are well brought up? It is not the generality of them: will you say that Noah's family was no better then the drowned world, because there was one Chaus in it? Nor Davids, because there was one Absalom? Nor Christs, because there was one Judas?
3. And what if some prove naught that are well brought up? It is not the generality of them: will you say that Noahs family was no better then the drowned world, because there was one Chaus in it? Nor Davids, because there was one Absalom? Nor Christs, because there was one Judas?