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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.
Chapters of Job, and take heed of disputing against God again for ever.1 Knowest thou not that with him all things are possible? Can he make a Camel go through the eye of a needle? Can he make such a blind Sinner, as thou, to see? and such a proud heart, as thine, to stoop? and such an Earthly mind, as thine, Heavenly? And subdue all that, thy fleshly foolish wisdom? And is not this as great a work, as to Raise thee from the Dust? Wast thou any unlikelier to Be, when thou wast Nothing, then thou shalt be when thou art Dust? Is it not as easy to raise the Dead, as to make Heaven, and Earth, and all, of Nothing? But if thou be unpersuadable, all I say to thee more is, as the Prophet to the Prince of Samaria, (2 King. 7.20.) Thou shalt see that day with thine Eyes, but little to thy Comfort; for that which is the day of relief to the Saints, shall be a day of Revenge on thee: There is a Rest prepared, but thou canst not enter in, because of unbelief, Heb. 3.19. But for thee, O Believing Soul, never think to comprehend in the narrow capacity of thy shallow brain, the Counsels, and ways of thy Maker: No more then thou canst contain in thy fist the vast Ocean. He never intended thee such a Capacity, when he made thee, and gave thee that measure thou hast; no more then he intended to enable that worm, or this post, or stone, fully to know thee. Therefore when he speaks, dispute not, but believe. As Abraham, who considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, nor yet the deadness of Sarahs womb; He staggered not at the Promise of God through unbelief: but was strong in faith, giving Glory to God: And being fully persuaded, that what he had promised, he was also able to perform. And so against Hope, believed in Hope, Rom. 4.18, 19, 20, 21. So look not thou on the dead bones, and dust, and difficulties, but at the Promise: Martha knew her Brother should rise again at the Resurrection; But if Christ say, he shall rise before, it must be believed. Come then, fellow Christians let us contentedly commit these Carcasses to the dust: That prison shall not long contain them. Let us lie down in peace and take our Rest: It will not be an Everlasting Night, ⟨p. 53⟩