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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.
The delusions of many of them are strong, and ungrounded comforts they seem to have store, I can ⟨p. 663⟩judg it to be of no better a kind, because it comes not in the Scripture way: They will some of them profess, That when they meditate and labour for comfort themselves, they either have none, or at least but humane, and of a lower kind; but all the comforts that they own and value, are immediately injected without their pains: So do I expect my comforts to come in, in Heaven, but till then, I am glad if they will come with labour, and the Spirit will help me to suck them from the breasts of the promise, and to walk for them daily to the face of God. It was an established Law among the Argi, That if a man were perceived to be idle and lazy, he must give an account before the Magistrate, how he came by his victuals and maintenance: And sure, when I see these men lazy in the use of Gods appointed means for comfort, I cannot but question how they come by their comforts: I would they would examine it throughly themselves; for God will require an account of it from them. Idleness, and not improving the Truth in painful duty, is the common cause of mens seeking comfort from Error; even as the people of Israel, when they had no comfortable answer from God, because of their own sin and neglect, would run to seek it from the Idols of the Heathens: So when men-were falsehearted to the Truth, and the Spirit of Truth did deny them comfort, because they denied him sincere obedience; therefore they will seek it from a lying spirit.
The delusions of many of them are strong, and ungrounded comforts they seem to have store, I can ⟨p. 663⟩judg it to be of no better a kinde, because it comes not in the Scripture way: They will some of them profess, That when they meditate and labor for comfort themselves, they either have none, or at least but humane, and of a lower kinde; but all the comforts that they own and value, are immediatly injected without their pains: So do I expect my comforts to come in, in Heaven, but till then, I am glad if they will come with labor, and the Spirit will help me to suck them from the brests of the promise, and to walk for them daily to the face of God. It was an established Law among the Argi, That if a man were perceived to be idle and lazy, he must give an account before the Magistrate, how he came by his victuals and maintenance: And sure, when I see these men lazy in the use of Gods appointed means for comfort, I cannot but question how they come by their comforts: I would they would examine it throughly themselves; for God will require an account of it from them. Idleness, and not improving the Truth in painful duty, is the common cause of mens seeking comfort from Error; even as the people of Israel, when they had no comfortable answer from God, because of their own sin and neglect, would run to seek it from the Idols of the Heathens: So when men-were falshearted to the Truth, and the Spirit of Truth did deny them comfort, because they denied him sincere obedience; therefore they will seek it from a lying spirit.