A27017:1868
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. III.
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2. Next let us see what force Consideration hath for the moving of the affections, and for the powerful imprinting of things in the heart.
2. NExt let us see what force Consideration hath for the moving of the affections, and for the powerful imprinting of things in the heart.
Why, First, Consideration doth, as it were, open the door, between the Head and the Heart: The Understanding having received Truths, lays them up in the Memory, now Consideration is the conveyer of them from thence to the Affections: There's few men of so weak Understanding or Memory, but they know and can remember that which would strangely work upon them, and make great alterations in their spirits, if they were not locked up in their brain, and if they could but convey them down to their hearts: Now this is the great work of Consideration. O what rare men would they be, who have strong heads, and much learning, and knowledge, if the obstructions between the Head and the Heart were but opened! and their Affections did but correspond to their Understandings! why, if they would but bestow as much time and pains in studying the goodness and the evil of things, as they bestow in studying the Truth and Falsehood of Enunciations, it were the readiest way to obtain this; he is usually the best Scholar, who hath the quick, the clear, and the tenacious apprehension; but he is usually the best Christian, who hath the deepest, piercing, and affecting Apprehension: He is the best Scholar who hath the readiest passage from the Ear to the Brain, but he is the best Christian, who hath the readiest passage from the Brain to the Heart; now Consideration is that on our parts that must open the passage,