A27017:1605
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. XXI.1
- 1§. 21.
12. Consider, how many of the precious Saints of God, of all ages and places, have gone before thee? Thou art not to enter an untrodden path, nor appointed first to break the Ice. Except only Enoch and Elijah, which of the Saints have scaped death? And art thou better then they? There are many millions of Saints dead, more then do now remain on Earth. What a number of thine own bosom friends, and intimate acquaintance, and companions in duty, are now there? and why shouldst thou be ⟨p. 594⟩so loth to follow? Nay, hath not Jesus Christ himself gone this way? hath he not sanctified the grave to us? and perfumed the dust with his own body? And art thou loth to follow him too? O rather let us say as Thomas, 1Let us also go, and die with him; or rather, let us suffer with him, that we may be glorified together with him.
12. COnsider, how many of the precious Saints of God, of all ages and places, have gone before thee? Thou art not to enter an untrodden path, nor appointed first to break the Ice. Except onely Henoch and Elias, which of the Saints have scaped death? And art thou better then they? There are many millions of Saints dead, more then do now remain on Earth. What a number of thine own bosome friends, and intimate acquaintance, and companions in duty, are now there? and why shouldst thou be ⟨p. 594⟩so loth to follow? Nay, hath not Jesus Christ himself gone this way? hath he not sanctified the grave to us? and perfumed the dust with his own body? And art thou loth to follow him too? O rather let us say as Thomas,