A27017:1797
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. IV.1
- 1§. 4.
1. I Call this Meditation [The acting of the powers of the Soul] meaning the soul as Rational, to difference it from the cogitations of the soul as Sensitive; the Sensitive soul hath a kind of Meditation by the common sense, the Fantasy, and Estimation: The fleshly man mindeth the things of the flesh:1 If it were the work of the Ear, or the Eye, or the Tongue, or the Hands, which I am setting you on, I doubt not but you would more readily take it up; but it is the work of the soul, for bodily exercise doth here profit but little. The soul hath its labour and its ease, its business and its idleness, its intention and remission, as well as the body: And diligent students are usually as sensible of the labour and wea••ness of their spirits and brain, as they are of that of the members of the body. This action of the soul, is it I persuade thee to.
1. I Call this Meditation [The acting of the powers of the Soul] meaning the soul as Rational, to difference it from the cogitations of the soul as Sensitive; the Sensitive soul hath a kinde of Meditation by the common sense, the Phantasie, and Estimation: The fleshly man mindeth the things of the flesh:1 If it were the work of the Ear, or the Eye, or the Tongue, or the Hands, which I am setting you on, I doubt not but you would more readily take it up; but it is the work of the soul, for bodily exercise doth here profit but little. The soul hath its labor and its ease, its business and its idleness, its intention and remission, as well as the body: And diligent students are usually as sensible of the labor and weaness of their spirits and brain, as they are of that of the members of the body. This action of the soul, is it I perswade thee to.