A27017:1606
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. XXII.
- 1§. 22.
I Will only yet Answer some Objections, and so conclude this Use.
I Will onely yet Answer some Objections, and so conclude this Use.
1. Object. O, If I were but certain of Heaven, I should then never stick at dying.
Answ. 1. Search, for all that, whether some of the forementioned c•uses may not be in fault, as well as this.
2. Didst thou not say so long ago? Have you not been in this song this many years? if you are yet uncertain, whose fault is it? you have had nothing else to do with your lives, nor no greater matter then this to mind. Were you not better presently fall to the trial; till you have put the Question out of doubt? Must God stay while you trifle? and must his patience be continued to cherish your negligence? If thou have played the loiterer, do so no longer. Go search thy soul, and follow the search close, till the come to a clear discovery. Begin to night, stay not till the next morning. Certainty comes not by length of time, but by the blessing of the Spirit upon wise and faithful trial. You may linger out