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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. XII.
- 1§. 12.
10. Compare also the Glory of the Heavenly Kingdom, with the glory of the imperfect Church on earth, and with the Glory of Christ in his state of Humiliation: And you may easily conclude, If Christ under his fathers wrath, and Christ standing in the room of sinners, were so wonderful in excellencies, what then is Christ at the Fathers right hand? And if the Church under her sins and enemies, have so much beauty; something it will have at the marriage of the Lamb. How wonderful was the Son of God in the form of a servant? When he is born, the Heavens must proclaim him by miracles: A new Star must appear in the firmament, and fetch men from remote parts of the world to worship him in a manger;1 The Angels and Heavenly host must declare his Nativity, and solemnize it with praising and glorifying God. When he is but a child he must dispute with the Doctors and confute them. When he sets upon his office, his whole life is a wonder. Water turned into wine, thousands fed with five loaves and two fishes; multitudes following him to see his miracles; The lepers cleansed, the sick healed, the lame restored, the blind receive their sight, the dead raised; if we had seen all this, should we not have thought it wonderful? The most desperate diseases cured with a touch, with a word speaking; the blind eyes with a little clay and spittle, the Devil departing by Legions at his command; the winds and the seas obeying his Word; are not all these wonderful? Think then, How wonderful is his Celestial Glory? If there be such cutting down of boughs, and spreading of Garments, and crying Hosanna, to one that comes into Jerusalem riding on an Ass; what will there be when he comes with his Angels in his Glory? If they that heard him preach the Gospel of the Kingdom, have their hearts turned within them, that they return and say, Never man spake like this Man: Then sure they that behold his Majesty in his Kingdom, will say, There was never glory like this Glory. If when his enemies come to apprehend him, the word of his mouth doth cast them all to the ground; if when he is dying, the earth must tremble, the veil of the Temple rent, the sun in the firmament must hide its face, and deny its light to the sinful world, and the dead bodies of the Saints arise, and the standers