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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 15
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1. Get your hearts deeply sensible of your own sin and misery, because of this long time which you have spent in ignorance and neglect. Bethink your selves sometime when you are alone; Did not God make you, and sustain you for his service? should not he have had the youth and strength of your spirits? Did you live all this while at the door of Eternity? What if you had dyed in ignorance? Where had you been then? What a deal of time have you spent to little purpose? Your life is near done, and your work all undone. You are ready to dye, before you have learned to live. Should not God have had a better share of your lives? and your souls been more sadly regarded and provided for? In the ⟨p. 544⟩midst of these thoughts, cast down your selves in sorrow, as at the feet of Christ, bewa•• your folly, & beg pardon, & recovering grace.
1. Get your hearts deeply sensible of your own sin and misery, because of this long time which you have spent in ignorance and neglect. Bethink your selves sometime when you are alone; Did not God make you, and sustain you for his service? should not he have had the youth and strength of your spirits? Did you live all this while at the door of Eternity? What if you had dyed in ignorance? Where had you been then? What a deale of time have you spent to little purpose? Your life is near done, and your work all undone. You are ready to dye, before you have learned to live. Should not God have had a better share of your lives? and your souls been more sadly regarded and provided for? In the ⟨p. 544⟩midst of these thoughts, cast down your selves in sorrow, as at the feet of Christ, bewa•• your folly, & beg pardon, & recovering grace.
2. Then think as sadly how you have wronged your children: If an unthrift that hath sold all his lands, will lament it for his children's sake as well as his own; much more should you.