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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
Treatise › Chapter 12: How to manage and watch over the Heart, through the whole Work.
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CHAP. XII. How to manage and watch over the Heart, through the whole Work.
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Sixthly. The sixth and last part of this Directory, is, To guide you in the managing of your hearts through this work, and to show you wherein you have need to be exceeding watchful. I have showed before, what must be done with your hearts, in your preparations to the work, and in your setting upon it: I shall now show it you, in respect of the time of performance. Our chief work will here be to discover to you the danger, and that will direct you to the fittest remedy. Let me therefore here acquaint you beforehand, That when ever you set upon this Heavenly employment, you shall find your own hearts your greatest hinderer, and they will prove false to you in one or all of these four degrees. First, They will hold off, that you ⟨p. 782⟩will hardly get them to the work; secondly, or else they will betray you by their idleness in the work; pretending to do it, when they do it not; or thirdly, they will interrupt the work by their frequent excursions, and turning aside to every object; or fourthly, they will spoil the work by cutting it short, and be gone before you have done any good on it. Therefore I here forewarn you, as you value the unvaluable comfort of this work, that you faithfully resist these four dangerous evils, or else all that I have said hitherto is in vain.