A27017:1623
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.
CHAP. III. Motives to a Heavenly Life.
1SECT. I.
- 1§. 1.
WE have now by the guidance of the Word of the Lord, and by the assistance of his Spirit, showed you the nature of the Rest of the Saints; and acquainted you with some duties in relation thereto: We come now to the close of all, to press you to the great duty, which I chiefly intended, when I begun this subject; and have here reserved it to the last place, because I know hearers are usually of slippery memories; yet apt to retain the last that is spoken, though they forget all that went before. Dear friends, its pity that either you or I, should forget any thing of that which doth so nearly concern us, as this Eternal Rest of the Saints doth. But if you must needs forget something; let it be any thing else, rather then this; let it be rather all that I have hitherto said (though I hope of better) then this one ensuing Use.
WE have now by the guidance of the Word of the Lord, and by the assistance of his Spirit, shewed you the nature of the Rest of the Saints; and acquainted you with some duties in relation thereto: We come now to the close of all, to press you to the great duty, which I chiefly intended, when I begun this subject; and have here reserved it to the last place, because I know hearers are usually of slippery memories; yet apt to retain the last that is spoken, though they forget all that went before. Dear friends, its pity that either you or I, should forget any thing of that which doth so neerly concern us, as this Eternal Rest of the Saints doth. But if you must needs forget something; let it be any thing else, rather then this; let it be rather all that I have hitherto said (though I hope of better) then this one ensuing Use.