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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.
Thirdly, To draw yet nearer the heart of the work; The third thing to be discovered to you is, What Powers of the soul must here be acted? What affections excited? What considerations of their objects are necessary thereto? and in what order we must proceed? I join all these together, because though in themselves they are distinct things, yet in the practice they all concur to the same Action.
THirdly, To draw yet neerer the heart of the work; The third thing to be discovered to you is, What Powers of the soul must here be acted? What affections excited? What considerations of their objects are necessary thereto? and in what order we must proceed? I joyn all these together, because though in themselves they are distinct things, yet in the practice they all concurre to the same Action.
The matters of God which we are to think on, have their various qualifications, and are presented to the soul of man in divers relative and Modal considerations: According to these several considerations ⟨p. 725⟩of the objects, the soul it self is distinguished into its several faculties, powers, and capacities▪ That as God hath given man five senses to partake of the five distinct excellencies of the objects of sense; so he hath diversified the soul of man either into faculties, powers or ways of acting, answerable to the various qualifications and considerations of himself and the inferior objects of this soul: And as, if there be more sensible excellencies in the creatures, yet they are unknown to us who have but these five senses to discern them by, so whatever other excellencies are in God and our happiness, more then these faculties or powers of the soul can apprehend, must needs remain wholly unknown to us, till our souls have senses (as it were) suitable to those objects. […] as it is unknown to a tree or a stone, what sound, and light […] sweetness are; or that there are any such things in the world […].
The matters of God which we are to think on, have their various qualifications, and are presented to the soul of man in divers relative and Modal considerations: According to these several considerations