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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.
And yet is it possible that he should be unwilling of my joys? Never think it, O my unbelieving soul; nor dare to charge him with thy uncomfortable heaviness, who offereth thee the foretaste of the highest delights, that heaven doth afford, and God bestow. Doth he not bid thee delight thy self in the Lord? and promise to give thee then the desires of thy heart?1 Hath he not charged thee to rejoice evermore? Yea to sing aloud, and shout for joy? Psal. 47.1. Why should I then draw back discouraged? My God is willing, if I were but willing. He is delighted in my delights. He would fain have it my constant frame, and daily business, to be near to him in my believing Meditations; and to live in the sweetest thoughts of his goodness, and to be always delighting my soul in himself. O blessed work! Employment fit for the sons of God!
And yet is it possible that he should be unwilling of my joyes? Never think it, O my unbelieving soul; nor dare to charge him with thy uncomfortable heaviness, who offereth thee the foretaste of the highest delights, that heaven doth afford, and God bestow. Doth he not bid thee delight thy self in the Lord? and promise to give thee then the desires of thy heart?1 Hath he not charged thee to rejoyce evermore? Yea to sing aloud, and shout for joy? Psal. 47.1. Why should I then draw back discouraged? My God is willing, if I were but willing. He is delighted in my delights. He would faine have it my constant frame, and daily business, to be neer to him in my believing Meditations; and to live in the sweetest thoughts of his goodness, and to be always delighting my soul in himself. O blessed work! Employment fit for the sons of God!