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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. XIV.
- 1§. 14.
5. DO not our daily fears of death, make our lives a continual torment?1 The fears of death (as Erasmus saith) being a sorer evil then death it self. And thus, as Paul did dye daily in regard of preparation, and in regard of the necessary sufferings of his life: so do we in regard of the torments, and the useless sufferings which we make our selves. Those lives which might be full of Joys, in the daily contemplation of the life to come, and the sweet delightful thoughts of bliss; how do we fill them up with terrors, through all these causeless thoughts and fears? Thus do we consume our own comforts, and prey upon our tru•st pleasures. When we might lye down, and rise up, and walk abroad ⟨p. 587⟩with our hearts full of the Joys of God; we continually fill them with perplexing fears. For he that fears dying, must be always fearing, because he hath always cause to expect it. And how can that mans life be comfortable, who lives in continual fear, of loosing his comforts?
5. DO not our daily fears of death, make our lives a continual torment?1 The fears of death (as Erasmus saith) being a sorer evil then death it self. And thus, as Paul did dye daily in regard of preparation, and in regard of the necessary sufferings of his life: so do we in regard of the torments, and the useless sufferings which we make our selves. Those lives which might be full of Joyes, in the daily contemplation of the life to come, and the sweet delightful thoughts of bliss; how do we fill them up with terrors, through all these causeless thoughts and fears? Thus do we consume our own comforts, and prey upon our trust pleasures. When we might lye down, and rise up, and walk abroad