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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.
SECT. I.1
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Thus I have by the gracious assistance of the Spirit, directed you in this work of Heavenly Contemplation, and lined you out the best way that I know for your successful performance, and lead you into the path where you may walk with God. But because I would bring it down to the capacity of the meanest, and help their memories who are apt to let slip the former particulars, and cannot well lay together the several branches of this method, That they may reduce them to practice: I shall here contract the whole into a brief sum, and lay it all before you in a narrower compass. But still Reader, I wish thee to remember, that it is the practice of a duty, that I am directing thee in; and therefore, if thou wilt not practise it, do not read it.
THus I have by the gracious assistance of the Spirit, directed you in this work of Heavenly Contemplation, and lined you out the best way that I know for your successful performance, and lead you into the path where you may walk with God. But because I would bring it down to the capacity of the meanest, and help their memories who are apt to let slip the former particulars, and cannot well lay together the several branches of this method, That they may reduce them to practice: I shall here contract the whole into a brief sum, and lay it all before you in a narrower compass. But still Reader, I wish thee to remember, that it is the practice of a duty, that I am directing thee in; and therefore, if thou wilt not practise it, do not read it.
The sum is this, As thou makest conscience of praying daily, so do thou of the acting of thy Graces in Meditation; and more