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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.
And his friends found noted down in his Papers, a great many of persons, who in their last agony, did give him thanks for this very reason, That by his direction they had come to the knowledge of Jesus their Saviour; in the knowledge of whom, They esteemed it sweet to live, but to die far more sweet. And I cannot tell, whether this very thing will not prove more glorious to Bucholcer before God, then if he had consecrated to the memory of posterity, many Myriads of contentious writings. And as the study of controversies is not the most pleasant, nor the most profitable; so much less the public handling of them: For do it with the greatest meekness, and ingenuity, yet shall we meet with such unreasonable men, as the said Bucholcer did, Qui arrepta ex aliquibus voculis calumniandi materia, haereseos insimulare & traducere optimum virum non erubescerent; Frustra obtestante ipso, dextrè data, dextrè acciperent. i. e. Who taking occasion of reproach from some small words, were not ashamed to traduce the good man, and accuse him of Heresy; while he in vain obtested with them, that they should take in good part, what was delivered with a good intention. Siracides saith in Ecclesiasticus, Chapter 26. That a ⟨p. 643⟩scolding woman shall be sought o•t for to drive away the enemies; but experience of all ages tells us to our sorrow, That the wrangling Divine is their chiefest in let, and no such Scarecrow to them at all.
And his friends found noted down in his Papers, a great many of persons, who in their last agony, did give him thanks for this very reason, That by his direction they had come to the knowledg of Jesus their Saviour; in the knowledg of whom, They esteemed it sweet to live, but to die far more sweet. And I cannot tell, whether this very thing will not prove more glorious to Bucholcer before God, then if he had consecrated to the memory of posterity, many Myriads of contentious writings. And as the study of controversies is not the most pleasant, nor the most profitable; so much less the publike handling of them: For do it with the greatest meekness, and ingenuity, yet shall we meet with such unreasonable men, as the said Bucholcer did, Qui arrepta ex aliquibus voculis calumniandi materia, haereseos insimulare & traducere optimum virum non erubescerent; Frustra obtestante ipso, dextrè data, dextrè acciperent. i. e. Who taking occasion of reproach from some small words, were not ashamed to traduce the good man, and accuse him of Heresie; while he in vain obtested with them, that they should take in good part, what was delivered with a good intention. Siracides saith in Ecclesiasticus, Chapter 26. That a