A27017:1872
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.
2. Matters of great weight, which do nearly concern us, are aptest to work most effectually upon the Heart; now Meditation draweth forth these working Objects, and presents them to the Affections in their worth and weight: The most delectable Object doth not please him that sees it not, nor doth the joyfullest news affect him that never hears it; now Consideration presents before us those Objects that were as absent, and brings them to the Eye, and the Ear of the soul: Are not Christ and Glory, think you, affecting Objects? would not they work wonders upon the soul if they were but clearly discovered? and strangely transport us, if our apprehensions were any w•it answerable to their worth! why, by Consideration it is that they are presented to us. This is the Prospective Glass of the Christian, by which he can see from Earth to Heaven.
2. MAtters of great weight, which do neerly concern us, are aptest to work most effectually upon the Heart; now Meditation draweth forth these working Objects, and presents them to the Affections in their worth and weight: The most delectable Object doth not please him that sees it not, nor doth the joyfullest news affect him that never hears it; now Consideration presents before us those Objects that were as absent, and brings them to the Eye, and the Ear of the soul: Are not Christ and Glory, think you, affecting Objects? would not they work wonders upon the soul if they were but clearly discovered? and strangely transport us, if our apprehensions were any w•it answerable to their worth! why, by Consideration it is that they are presented to us. This is the Prospective Glass of the Christian, by which he can see from Earth to Heaven.