A27017:1970
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.
1Fifthly. The fifth part of this Directory is, To show you what advantages you should take, and what helps you should use to make your Meditations of Heaven more quickening, and to make you taste the sweetness that is therein. For that is the main work that I drive at through all; that you may not stick in a bare thinking, but may have the lively se••e of all upon your hearts: And this you will find to be the most difficult part of the work, and that its easier barely to think of Heaven a whole day, then to be lively and affectionate in those thoughts one quarter of an hour. Therefore let us yet a little further consider what may be done, to make your thoughts of Heaven to be piercing, affecting, raising thoughts.
1FIfthly. The fifth part of this Directory is, To shew you what advantages you should take, and what helps you should use to make your Meditations of Heaven more quickening, and to make you taste the sweetness that is therein. For that is the main work that I drive at through all; that you may not stick in a bare thinking, but may have the lively se••e of all upon your hearts: And this you will finde to be the most difficult part of the work, and that its easier barely to think of Heaven a whole day, then to be lively and affectionate in those thoughts one quarter of an hour. Therefore let us yet a little further consider what may be done, to make your thoughts of Heaven to be piercing, affecting, raising thoughts.
- 1Fetch help from Sense.
Here therefore you must understand, That the mere pure work of Faith, hath many disadvantages with us, in comparison of the work of Sense. Faith is imperfect, for we are renewed but in part; but Sense hath its strength, according to the strength of the flesh: Faith goes against a world of resistance, but Sense doth not. Faith ⟨p. 757⟩