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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.
me thinks I could bid the world farewell, and immure my self among my books, and look forth no more (were it a lawful course) but (as Heinsius in his Library at Leiden) shut the doors upon me, and as in the lap of Eternity, among those divine souls, employ my self in sweet content, and pity the rich and great ones that know not this happiness. Sure then it is a high delight indeed, which in the true lap of Eternity is enjoyed! If Lipsius thought when he did but read Seneca, that he was even upon Olympus top, above mortality and humane things: What a case shall I be in when I am beholding Christ? If Julius Scaliger thought twelve verses in Lucan better then the whole German Empire.1 What shall I think mine inheritance worth? If the Mathematics alone are so delectable, that their students do profess, that they should think it sweet to live and dye in those studies: How delectable then will my life be, when I shall fully and clearly know those things, which the most learned do now know but doubtfully and darkly? In one hour shall I see all difficulties vanish; and all my doubts in Physics, Metaphysics, Politics, Medicine, &c. shall be resolved; so happy are the students of that University. Yea all the depths in divinity will be uncovered to ⟨p. 808⟩me, and all the difficult knots untied; and the book unsealed, and mine eyes opened. For in knowing God; I shall know all things, that are fit or good for the creature to know. There Commeni'us attempt is perfected; and all the sciences reduced to one. Seneca thought, that he that lived without books, was but buried alive: But had he known what it is to enjoy God in glory, he would have said indeed, that to live without him, is to be buried alive in hell.
me thinks I could bid the world farewel, and immure my self among my books, and look forth no more (were it a lawful course) but (as Heinsius in his Library at Leyden) shut the doors upon me, and as in the lap of Eternity, among those divine souls, imploy my self in sweet content, and pitty the rich and great ones that know not this happiness. Sure then it is a high delight indeed, which in the true lap of Eternity is enjoyed! If Lipsius thought when he did but read Seneca, that he was even upon Olympus top, above mortality and humane things: VVhat a case shall I be in when I am beholding Christ? If Julius Scaliger thought twelve verses in Lucan better then the whole German Empire.