A27017:1955
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. III.1
- 1§. 3.
1But perhaps thou wilt say, Every man cannot understand this Method, this is for Ministers, and learned men, every man is not able to play the Preacher. I Answer thee, First, There is not that ability required to this, as is to the work of public Preaching; here thy thoughts may serve the turn, but there must be also the decent Ornaments of Language, here is needful but an honest understanding heart, but there must be a good pronunciation and a voluble tongue; here if thou miss of the Method, thou mayest make up that in one piece of Application which thou hast neglected in another, but there thy failings are injurious to many, and a scandal and disgrace to the Work of God; thou knowest what will fit thy own heart, and what Arguments take best with thy own Affections, but thou art not so well acquainted with the dispositions of others. Secondly, I answer further, Every man is bound to be skilful in the Scriptures as well as Ministers: Kings and Magistrates, Deut. 17.18, 19, 20. Josh. 1.8. And the people also, Deut. 6.6, 7, 8. Do you think, if you did as is there commanded, Write it upon thy heart, lay them up in thy soul, bind them upon thy hand, and between thine eyes, meditate in them day and night; I say, if you did thus, would you not quickly understand as much as ⟨p. 754⟩this? See