A27017:1710
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. I.1
- 1§. 1.
The first task that I must here set thee, consists in the avoiding of some dangerous *hinderances, which otherwise will keep thee off from this work, as they have done many a thousand souls before thee. If I show thee briefly where the Rocks and Gulf do lie, I hope thou wilt beware. If I stick up a mark at every quicksand, I hope I need to say no more, to put thee by it. Therefore as thou valuest the comforts of a Heavenly conversation, I here charge thee from God, to beware most carefully of these impediments.
THe first task that I must here set thee, consists in the avoiding of some dangerous *hinderances, which otherwise will keep thee off from this work, as they have done many a thousand souls before thee. If I shew thee briefly where the Rocks and Gulf do lie, I hope thou wilt beware. If I stick up a mark at every quicksand, I hope I need to say no more, to put thee by it. Therefore as thou valuest the comforts of a Heavenly conversation, I here charge thee from God, to beware most carefully of these impediments.
- *Ad illam via•• requiritur, 1. Quod homo per virtuosam assuefactionem & gratam, sit radicatus in virtutibus: Quod nullam delectationem •abeat in appetitu vanae gloriae, in capiditate divi•iarum, in concupiscentia oculorum & gule. 2. Requiritur internum silentium, ut non occupet se circa exteriora: Quid audicrit, vel viderit for is nihil curando, tanquam in somno occurrissent. 3. Amorosa adhaesio cum Deo: Ut onmia ejus, judicia, omnia facta, mnes doctrinas. cum veverentia amplectatur. 4. Quod nibil aliud quaerat, sedreputet sibi illum dilctum sufficientissimum, superexcellentem illum in cord suo diligat super omne quod potest videri, audiri, vel cogitari, vel imaginari: Quia totus amabilis, totus desiderabilis, &c. 5. Quod saepe reducat ad memorians perfectiones Dei, & illis intimè congratuletur. Gerson 3. part. in Alphabeto divini amoris, cap 14.