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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.
Thus do thou expatiate in the Praises of God, and open his Excellencies to thine own heart, till thou feel the life begin to stir, and the fire in thy breast begin to kindle: As gazing upon the dusty beauty of flesh, doth kindle the fire of carnal love; so this gazing on the Glory and Goodness of the Lord, will kindle this Spiritual love in the-soul. Bruising will make the Spices odoriferous, and rubbing the Pomander will bring forth the sweetness: Act therefore thy soul upon this delightful object; toss these cogitations frequently in thy heart, rub over all thy Affections with them, as you will do your cold hands, till they begin to warm: What though thy heart be Rock and Flint, this often striking may bring forth the fire; but if yet thou feelest not thy love to work, lead thy heart further, and show it yet more; show it the Son of the living God, whose name is, Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, 1The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace; show it the King of Saints on the Throne of his Glory, who is the first and the last, who is, and was, and is to come; who liveth, and was dead, and behold, he lives for evermore; who hath made thy peace by the blood of his Cross, and hath prepared thee with himself, an Habitation of Peace: His office is, to be the great Peace-Maker; his Kingdom is, a Kingdom of Peace; his Gospel is, the Tidings of Peace; his Voice to thee now is, the Voice of Peace: ⟨p. 733⟩Draw near and behold him: Dost thou not hear his voice? He that called Thomas to come near,2 and to see the print of the Nails, and to put his finger into his Wounds; He it is that calls to thee, Come near, and view the Lord thy Saviour, and be not faithless, but believing:3 Peace be unto thee, fear not, It is I: He that calleth, Behold me, behold me, to a rebellious people that calleth not on his Name, doth call out to thee a Believer to behold him: He that calls to them who pass by, to behold his Sorrow in the day of his Humiliation, doth call now to thee to behold his Glory in the day of his Exaltation: Look well upon him; Dost thou not know him? why, its He that brought thee up from the pit of hell: Its He that reversed the sentence of thy Damnation; that bore the Curse which thou shouldest have born, and restored thee to the blessing that thou hadst forfeited and lost, and purchased the Advancement which thou must inherit for ever: And yet dost thou not know him?