A27017:1903
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.
•. When thy Meditation hath thus proceeded about the truth of thy Happiness, the next part of the work is to meditate of its Goodness; That when the Judgment hath determined, and Faith hath apprehended, it may then past on to raise the Affections.
•. WHen thy Meditation hath thus proceeded about the truth of thy Happiness, the next part of the work is to meditate of its Goodness; That when the Judgment hath determined, and Faith hath apprehended, it may then past on to raise the Affections.
1. The first Affection to be acted is Love; the object of it (as I have told you) is Goodness: Here then, here Christian, is the Soul reviving part of thy work; Go to thy Memory, thy Judgment, and thy Faith, and from them produce the excellencies of thy Rest; take out a copy of the Record of the Spirit in Scripture, and another of the sentence registered in thy Spirit, whereby the transcendent glory of the Saints is declared: Present these to thy affection of Love; open to it the Cabinet that contains the Pearl; show it the Promise, and that which it assureth: Thou needest not look on Heaven through a multiplying Glass; open but one Casement, that Love may look in: Give it but a glimpse of the back parts of God, and thou wilt find thy self presently in another world: Do but speak out, and Love can hear, do but reveal these things, and Love can see: Its the brutish love of the world that is blind; Divine love is exceeding quick sighted. Let thy Faith, as it were, take thy heart by the hand, and show it the sumptuous buildings of thy Eternal Habitation, and the Glorious Ornaments of thy Fathers house; show it those Mansions which Christ is preparing, and display before it the Honours of the Kingdom: Let Faith lead thy heart into the presence of God, and draw as near as possibly thou canst, and say to it,