A27017:1838
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. V.1
- 1§. 5.
2. For the extraordinary performance,1 these following are seasonable times. 1. When God doth extraordinarily revive and enable thy spirit. When God hath kindled thy spirit with fire from above, it is that it may mount aloft more freely. It is a choice part of a Christians skill, to observe the temper of his own spirit, and to observe the gales of grace, and how the spirit of Christ doth move upon his. Without Christ we can do nothing. Therefore let us be doing, when he is doing: and be sure not to be out of the way, nor asleep when he comes. The sails of the windmill stir not without the wind: therefore they must set them a going when the wind blows: Be sure that thou watch this wind and tide, if thou wouldst have a speedy voyage to Heaven. A little labour will set thy heart a going at such a time as this, when another time thou mayest study and take pains to little purpose. Most ⟨p. 706⟩Christians do sometime find a more then ordinary reviving and activeness of spirit; take this as sent from heaven to false thee thither: And when the spirit is lifting thy heart from the earth▪ be sure thou then lift at it thy self. As when the Angel came to Peter in his prison and Irons, and smo•e him on the side, and raised him up saying, Arise up quickly, gird thy self, •inde on thy sandals▪ and cast thy garment about thee, and follow me; And Peter arose and followed till he was delivered,