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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 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⟩the Lamb therein; The building of the walls of it are of Jasper, and the City is of pure gold as clear as glass; The foundation is garnished with precious stones, and the twelve gates are twelve pearls; every several gate is of one Pearl, and the street of the City is pure Gold, as it were transparent glass; There is no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it. It hath no need of Sun or Moon to shine in it, for the Glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof, and the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. These sayings are faithful and true; and the Lord God of the holy Prophets, hath sent his Angels (and his own Son) to show unto his servants the things that must shortly be done, Rev. 21.11, 12, 13. &c. to the end, & 22.6. What sayest thou now to all this? This is thy Rest, O my soul, and this must be the place of thy Everlasting habitation: Let all the sons of Zion then rejoice, and the daughters of Jerusalem be glad, for great is the Lord, and greatly is he praised in the City of our God; Beautiful for situation, the Joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, God is known in her palaces for a refuge, Psal. 48.11, 1, 2, 3.
Thus take thy heart into the Land of Promise; shew it the pleasant hills, and fruitful valleys; Shew 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 Sion, go round about her, tell the towers thereof; mark well her bulwarks; consider her palaces, that thou mayest tell it to thy soul (