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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.
4. So far as this Trial hath discovered thy neglect, and other sins against this Rest,4 proceed to the reprehension and censuring of thy self: chide thy heart for its Omissions and Commissions, and do it sharply till it feel the smart; as Peter Preached Reproof to his Hearers, till they were pricked to the heart, and cried out; And as a Father or Master will chide the child till it begin to cry and be ⟨p. 752⟩sensible of the fault; so do thou in chiding thy own heart; This is called a use of Reproof. Here also it will be very necessary, that thou bring forth all the aggravating Circumstances of the sin, that thy heart may feel it in its weight & bitterness; and if thy heart do evade or deny the sin, convince it by producing the several Discoveries.
4. So far as this Trial hath discovered thy neglect, and other sins against this Rest,4 proceed to the reprehension and censuring of thy self: chide thy heart for its Omissions and Commissions, and do it sharply till it feel the smart; as Peter Preached Reproof to his Hearers, till they were pricked to the heart, and cried out; And as a Father or Master will chide the childe till it begin to cry and be ⟨p. 752⟩sensible of the fault; so do thou in chiding thy own heart; This is called a use of Reproof. Here also it will be very necessary, that thou bring forth all the aggravating Circumstances of the sin, that thy heart may feel it in its weight & bitterness; and if thy heart do evade or deny the sin, convince it by producing the several Discoveries.
- 4Of Reproof.