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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.
SECT. X.
And it is not Thy Joy only;1 it is a Mutual Joy, as well as a Mutual Love: Is there such Joy in Heaven at thy Conversion, and will there be none at thy Glorification? Will not the Angels welcome thee thither? and congratulate thy safe Arrival? Yea, it is the Joy of Jesus Christ: For now he hath the end of his undertaking, labour, suffering, dying, when we have our Joys; When he is Glorified in his Saints,2 and admired in all them that believe. We are his seed, and the fruit of his Souls travel, which when he seeth, he will be satisfied, Isa. 53.10, 11. This is Christs Harvest, when he shall reap the fruit of his labours, and when he seeth it was not in vain, it will not repent him concerning his sufferings; but he will rejoice over his purchased inheritance, and his people shall rejoice in him.
ANd it is not Thy Joy onely;1 it is a Mutual Joy, as well as a Mutual Love: Is there such Joy in Heaven at thy Conversion, and will there be none at thy Glorification? Will not the Angels welcom thee thither? and congratulate thy safe Arrival? Yea, it is the Joy of Jesus Christ: For now he hath the end of his undertaking, labor, suffering, dying, when we have our Joys; When he is Glorified in his Saints,2 and admired in all them that beleeve. We are his seed, and the fruit of his Souls travel, which when he seeth, he will be satisfied, Isa. 53.10, 11. This is Christs Harvest, when he shall reap the fruit of his labors, and when he seeth it was not in vain, it will not repent him concerning his sufferings; but he will rejoyce over his purchased inheritance, and his people shall rejoyce in him.