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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. XIII.
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4. Consider; do we not combine with our most cruel, mortal foes? and jump with them in their most malicious design, while we are loth to dye and go to heaven? where is the height of all their malice? and whats the scope of all temptations? and whats the devils daily business? Is it not to keep our souls from God? And shall we be well content with this, and join with Satan in our desires? what though it be not those eternal torments? yet its the one half of Hell, which we wish to our selves, while we desire to be absent from Heaven and God. If thou shouldest take counsel of all thine enemies? If thou shouldest beat thy brains both night and day, in studying to do thy self a mischief? What greater then […], could it possibly be, To continue here on earth from God? Excepting only hell it self O what sport is this to Satan? that his desires and thine should so concur? That when he sees he cannot get thee to Hell, he can so long keep thee out of Heaven, and make thee the earnest petitioner for it thy self? O gratify not the Devil so much to thy own displeasure.
4. COnsider; do we not combine with our most cruel, mortal foes? and jump with them in their most malitious designe, while we are loth to dye and go to heaven? where is the height of all their malice? and whats the scope of all temptations? and whats the divels daily business? Is it not to keep our souls from God? And shall we be well content with this, and joyn with Satan in our desires? what though it be not those eternal torments? yet its the one half of Hell, which we wish to our selves, while we desire to be absent from Heaven and God. If thou shouldest take counsel of all thine enemies? If thou shouldest beat thy brains both night and day, in studying to do thy self a mischief? What greater then , could it possibly be, To continue here on earth from God? Excepting only hell it self O what sport is this to Sathan? that his desires and thine should so concur? That when he sees he cannot get thee to Hell, he can so long keep thee out of Heaven, and make thee the earnest petitioner for it thy self? O gratifie not the Divel so much to thy own displeasure.