A27017:1934
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.
Here then, Reader, take thy heart once again, as it were, by the hand, Bring it to the top of the highest Mount; if it be possible to some Atlas above the clouds; show it the Kingdom of Christ and the glory of it; say to it, All this will thy Lord bestow upon thee, who hast believed in him, and been a worshipper of him; It is the Fathers good pleasure to give thee this Kingdom; Seest thou this astonishing Glory above thee? Why all this is thy own inheritance. This Crown is thine, these pleasures are thine, this company, this beauteous place is thine, all things are thine, because thou art Christs, and Christ is thine; when thou wast married to him, thou hadst all this with him.
Here then, Reader, take thy heart once again, as it were, by the hand, Bring it to the top of the highest Mount; if it be possible to some Atlas above the clouds; shew it the Kingdom of Christ and the glory of it; say to it, All this will thy Lord bestow upon thee, who hast believed in him, and been a worshipper of him; It is the Fathers good pleasure to give thee this Kingdom; Seest thou this astonishing Glory above thee? Why all this is thy own inheritance. This Crown is thine, these pleasures are thine, this company, this beauteous place is thine, all things are thine, because thou art Christs, and Christ is thine; when thou wast married to him, thou hadstall this with him.
Thus take thy heart into the Land of Promise; show it the pleasant hills, and fruitful valleys; Show it the clusters of Grapes which thou hast gathered; and by those convince it that it is a blessed Land, flowing with better then milk and honey; enter the gates of the holy City; walk through the streets of the New Jerusalem, walk about Zion, go round about her, tell the towers thereof; mark well her bulwarks; consider her palaces, that thou mayest tell it to thy soul (Psal. 48.12, 13.) Hath it not the Glory of God, and is not her light like to a stone most precious? See the twelve foundations of her walls, and the names of the twelve Apostles of ⟨p. 746⟩