A27017:1850
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.
1SECT. VIII.
- 1§. 8.
1Thus much I thought necessary to advise thee concerning the time of this duty. It now follows that I speak a word of the fittest place. Though God is every where to be found by a faithful soul; Yet some places are more convenient for a duty then others.
1THus much I thought necessary to advise thee concerning the time of this duty. It now followes that I speak a word of the fittest place. Though God is every where to be found by a faithful soul; Yet some places are more convenient for a duty then others.
- 1Vide Gerson, ubi infra, cap. 24.
1. As this is a Private and spiritual duty, so it is most convenient that thou retire to some private place. Our spirits had need of every help, and to be freed from every hinderance in the work: And the quality of these circumstances, though to some they may seem small things, doth much conduce to our hinderance or our help. *