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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
Treatise › Chapter 5: Some general helps to a Heavenly Life.
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CHAP. V. Some general helps to a Heavenly Life.
1SECT. I.
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Having thus showed thee the blocks in thy way▪ and told thee what hinderances will resist thee in the Work: I shall now lay thee down some positive helps, and conclude with a Directory to the […] in duty it self. But first, I expect that thou resolve against the forementioned impediments, that thou read them seriously, and avoid them faithfully▪ or else thy labour will be all in vain; thou dost but go about to reconcile Light and Darkness▪ ⟨p. 669⟩Christ and Belial, and to conjoin Heaven and Hell in thy spirit; thou mayest sooner bring down Heaven to earth, then do this. I must tell thee also that I here expect thy promise, faithfully to set upon the helps which I shall prescribe thee, and that the Reading of them will not bring heaven into thy heart, but in their constant practice the Spirit will do it; It were better for thee I had never written them, and thou hadst never seen this Book, nor read them, if thou do not buckle thy self to the duty.
HAving thus shewed thee the blocks in thy way▪ and told thee what hinderances will resist thee in the Work: I shall now lay thee down some positive helps, and conclude with a Directory to the in duty it self. But first, I expect that thou resolve against the forementioned impediments, that thou read them seriously, and avoid them faithfully or else thy labor will be all in vain; thou dost but go about to reconcile Light and Darkness