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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.
SECT. VI.1
- 1§. 6.
5. This unwillingness to dye, doth actually impeach us of high Treason against the Lord: Is it not a choosing of Earth before him? and taking these present things for our happiness? and consequently making them our very God? If we did indeed make God our God, that is, our End, our Rest, our Portion, our Treasure; how is it possible but we should desire to enjoy him? It behoves us the rather to be fearful of this, it being utterly inconsistent with saving Grace to value any thing before God, or to make the Creature our highest End: Many other sins foul and great may possibly yet consist with sincerity, but so, I am certain, cannot that. But concerning this I have spoke before.
5. THis unwillingness to dye, doth actually impeach us of high Treason against the Lord: Is it not a chusing of Earth before him? and taking these present things for our happiness? and consequently making them our very God? If we did indeed make God our God, that is, our End, our Rest, our Portion, our Treasure; how is it possible but we should desire to enjoy him? It behoves us the rather to be fearful of this, it being utterly inconsistent with saving Grace to value any thing before God, or to make the Creature our highest End: Many other sins foul and great may possibly yet consist with sincerity, but so, I am certain, cannot that. But concerning this I have spoke before.