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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.
1SECT. IIII.
- 1§. 4.
12. Compare also the delights above, with the lawful delights of moderated senses. Think with thy self▪ how sweet is food to my taste when I am hungry? especially, as Isaac said, that which my soul loveth? that which my temperature and appetite do incline to? What delight hath the taste in some pleasant fruits? in some well relished meats? and in divers junkets? O what delight then must my soul needs have in feeding upon Christ the living bread? and in eating with him at his table in his Kingdom? Was a mess of pottage so sweet to Esau in his hunger, that he would buy them at so dear a rate as his birth-right? How highly then should I value this never perishing food? How pleasant is drink in the extremity of thirst? The delight of it to a man in a fever or other drought, can scarcely be expressed: It will make the strength of Sampson revive: O then how delightful will it be to my soul, to drink of that fountain of living water, which who so drinks shall thirst no more? So pleasant is wine and so refreshing to the spirits, that its said to make glad the heart of man: How pleasant then will that wine of the great marriage be? even that wine which our water was turned into? that best wine which will be kept till then? How delightful are pleasant odours to our smell? how delightful is perfect music to the ear? how delightful are beauteous sights to the eye? such as curious pictures; sumptuous, adorned, well-contrived buildings; handsome, necessary rooms, walks, prospects; Gardens stored with variety of beauteous and odoriferous flowers; or pleasant Meadows which are natural gardens? O then think