A27017:1655
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.
when my understanding is weakened, and befooled with common employment, and with conversing long with the vanities below; me thinks, a few sober thoughts of my Fathers house, and the blessed provision of his Family in Heaven, doth make me (with the Prodigal) to come to my self again: Surely, when a Christian withdraws himself from his earthly thoughts, and begins to converse with God in heaven, he is as Nebuchadnezzar, 1taken from the beasts of the field to the Throne, and his understanding returneth to him again. O when a Christian hath had but a glimpse of Eternity, and then looks down on the world again, how doth he befool himself for his sin! for neglects of Christ! for his fleshly pleasures! for his earthly cares! How doth he say to his Laughter, Thou art mad! and to his vain Mirth, What dost thou? How could he even tear his very flesh, and take revenge on himself for his folly! how verily doth ⟨p. 614⟩he think that there is no man in Bedlam so truly mad, as wilful sinners, and lazy betrayers of their own souls, and unworthy slighters of Christ and glory!
when my understanding is weakned, and befool'd with common imployment, and with conversing long with the vanities below; me thinks, a few sober thoughts of my Fathers house, and the blessed provision of his Family in Heaven, doth make me (with the Prodigal) to come to my self again: Surely, when a Christian withdraws himself from his earthly thoughts, and begins to converse with God in heaven, he is as Nebuchadnezzar, 1taken from the beasts of the field to the Throne, and his understanding returneth to him again. O when a Christian hath had but a glimpse of Eternity, and then looks down on the world again, how doth he befool himself for his sin! for neglects of Christ! for his fleshly pleasures! for his earthly cares! How doth he say to his Laughter, Thou art mad! and to his vain Mirth, What dost thou? How could he even tear his very flesh, and take revenge on himself for his folly! how verily doth ⟨p. 614⟩he think that there is no man in Bedlam so truly mad, as wiful sinners, and lazy betrayers of their own souls, and unworthy sleighters of Christ and glory!