A27017:1833
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. IIII.1
- 1§. 4.
2. The Lords day is a time exceeding seasonable for this exercise. When should we more seasonably contemplate on Rest, then on that day of Rest which doth typify it to us? Neither do I think that typifying use is ceased, because the Antitype is not fully yet come. However it being a day appropriated to Worship and spiritual duties, me thinks we should never exclude this duty which is so eminently spiritual. I think verily this is the chiefest work of a Christian Sabbath, and most agreeable to the intent of its positive institution. What fitter time to converse with our Lord, then on that day, which he hath appropriated to such employment,1 and therefore called it, The Lords Day? What fitter day to ascend to heaven, then that on which our Lord did arise from earth, and fully triumph over death and hell, and take possession of Heaven before us? The fittest temper for a true believer, is to be in the spirit on the Lords Day: This was Saint Johns ⟨p. 704⟩temper on that day. And what can bring us to this ravishment in the spirit, but the spiritual beholding of our ravishing glory? Surely though an outward ordinance may delight the ear, or tickle the fancy, yet it is the views of God that must ravish the soul. There is a great deal of difference betwixt the receiving of the word with joy, Mat. 13.20. and being in the spirit on the Lords Day, Rev. 1 10.
2. THe Lords day is a time exceeding seasonable for this exercise. When should we more seasonably contemplate on Rest, then on that day of Rest which doth typfie it to us? Neither do I think that typifying use is ceased, because the Antitype is not fully yet come. However it being a day appropriated to Worship and spiritual duties, me thinks we should never exclude this duty which is so eminently spiritual. I think verily this is the chiefest work of a Christian Sabbath, and most agreeable to the intent of its positive institution. What fitter time to converse with our Lord, then on that day, which he hath appropriated to such imployment,