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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. I.
Having thus opened you a window toward the Temple, and showed you a small Glimpse of the Back-parts of that Resemblance of the Saints Rest, which I had seen in the Gospel Glass; It follows that we proceed to view a little the Adjuncts and blessed properties of this Rest. But, alas, this little which I have seen, makes me cry out with the Prophet, Isa. 6.5, 6, 7. Woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean Lips, and dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts. Yet if he will send and touch my lips with a coal from the Altar of his Son, and say, thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged, I shall then speak boldly: and if he ask, Whom shall I send? I shall gladly answer, Here am I, Send me, Vers. 8. And why doth my trembling heart draw back? Surely the Lord is not now so terrible and inaccessible, nor the passage of Paradise so blocked up, as when the Law and Curse reigned? Wherefore finding, Beloved Christians, that a new and Living way is consecrated for us, through the veil, the flesh of Christ, 1by which we may with boldness enter into the Holiest, by the blood of Jesus; I shall draw near with the fuller Assurance: and finding the flaming Sword removed, shall look again into the Paradise of our God: and because I know that this is no forbidden fruit; and withal that it is good for food, and pleasant to the Spiritual Eyes,2 and a tree to be desired to make one truly wise and happy; I shall take (through the assistance of the Spirit) and ⟨p. 45⟩eat thereof my self, and give to you (according to my power) that you may eat. For you, Christians, is this food prepared, this wine broached, this fountain opened; And the message my Master sends you, is this Hearty Welcome, which you shall have in his own words,