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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
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. VII.
- 1§. 7.
6. TO have creatures and means without God, who is their end, is so far from being our happiness, that its an aggravation of our misery▪ even as to have food without strength▪ and starve in the midst of plenty, and as Pharaohs Kine, to devour all, and be fear still▪ What the better were you, if you had the best Minister on Earth▪ the best Society, the purest Church, and therewithal the most plentiful Estate, but nothing of God? If God should say, Take my Creatures, my Word, my Servants, my Ordinances, but not my Self; would you take this for a happiness? If you had the Word of God, and not the Word which is God▪ Or *the Bread of the Lord, and not the Lord, which is the true Bread? or could cry with the Jews, The Temple of the Lord, and had not the Lord of the Temple? This were a poor happiness. Was Capernaum the more happy, or the more miserable, for seeing the mighty works which they had seen, and hearing the words of Christ which they did hear?2 Surely, that which aggravates our sin and misery, cannot be our Rest.
6. TO have creatures and means without God, who is their end, is so far from being our happiness, that its an aggravation of our misery▪ even as to have food without strength▪ and starve in the midst of plenty, and as Pharoahs Kine, to devour all, and be fear still What the better were you, if you had the best Minister on Earth the best Society, the purest Church, and therewithall the most plentiful Estate, but nothing of God? If God should say, Take my Creatures, my VVord, my Servants, my Ordinances, but not my Self; would you take this for a happiness? If you had the Word of God, and not the VVord which is God Or