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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. XI.
1But alas, my fearful heart dare scarce proceed: Methinks I hear the Almighty's voice saying to me, as Elihu, Job 38.2. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
1BUt alass, my fearful heart dare scarce proceed: Methinks I hear the Almighties voyce saying to me, as Elihu, Job 38.2. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledg?
- 1§. 11.
But pardon, O Lord, thy Servants sin: I have not pried into unrevealed things; nor with audacious wits curiously searched into thy counsels: but indeed I have dishonoured thy Holiness, wronged thine Excellency, disgraced thy Saints Glory, by my own exceeding disproportionable portraying. I bewail from heart, that my conceivings fall so short, my Apprehensions are so dull, my thoughts so mean, my Affections so stupid, and my expressions so low and unbeseeming such a Glory. But I have only heard by the hearing of the Ear, Oh let thy Servant see thee, and possess these Joys, and then I shall have more suitable conceivings, and shall give thee fuller Glory, and abhor my present self, and disclaim and renounce all these Imperfections.