A27017:1533
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.
1SECT. V.
- 1§. 5.
4. Consider, if God should suffer thee thus to take up thy Rest here, it were one of the forest plagues, and greatest curses that could possibly befall thee: It were better for thee, if thou never hadst a day of ease, or content in the world; for then weariness might make thee seek after the true Rest: But if he should suffer thee to sit down and rest here, where were thy rest when this deceives thee? A restless wretch thou wouldst be through all eternity.1 To have their portion in this life, and their good things on the Earth, is the lot of the most miserable perishing sinners. And doth it become Christians then to expect so much here? Our Rest is our Heaven; and where we take our Rest, there we make our Heaven: And wouldst thou have but such a Heaven as this? Certainly, as Sauls Messengers found but Michols man of Straw, when they expected David: So wilt thou find but • Rest of Straw, of Wind, of Vanity, when thou most needest Rest. It will be but as a handful of water to a man that's drowning, which will help to destroy, but not to save him. But that is the next.
4. COnsider, if God should suffer thee thus to take up thy Rest here, it were one of the forest plagues, and greatest curses that could possibly befall thee: It were better for thee, if thou never hadst a day of ease, or content in the world; for then weariness might make thee seek after the true Rest: But if he should suffer thee to sit down and rest here, where were thy rest when this deceives thee? A restless wretch thou wouldst be through all eternitie.