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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.
Yet further, consider O my soul, How sweet have the very ordinances been unto thee? What raptures hast thou had in prayer and under heavenly Sermons? What gladness in days of thanksgiving, after eminent deliverances to the Church or to thy self? What delight do I find in the sweet society of the Saints? To be among my humble faithful neighbours and friends? To join with them in the frequent worship of God? To see their growth and stability and soundness of understanding? To see those daily added to the Church which shall be saved? O then what delight shall I have, to see the perfected Church in Heaven? and to join with these and all the Saints in another kind of worship then we can here conceive of? How sweet is it to join in the high praises of God in the solemn assemblies? How glad have I been to go up to the house of God? Especially after long restraint by sickness, when I have been as Hezekiah, released, and readmitted to join with the people of God and to set forth the praises of my great deliverer? How sweet is my work in Preaching the Gospel, and inviting sinners to the marriage feast of the Lamb? and opening to them the treasures of free Grace? Especially when God blesseth my endeavours with plenteous success, and giveth me to see the fruit of my labours: even this alone hath been a greater joy to my heart, that if I had been made the Lord of all the riches on earth.
Yet further, consider O my soul, How sweet have the very ordinances been unto thee? What raptures hast thou had in prayer and under heavenly Sermons? What gladness in dayes of thanksgiving, after eminent deliverances to the Church or to thy self? What delight do I finde in the sweet society of the Saints? To be among my humble faithful neighbors and friends? To joyne with them in the frequent worship of God? To see their growth and stability and soundness of understanding? To see those daily added to the Church which shall be saved? O then what delight shall I have, to see the perfected Church in Heaven? and to joyne with these and all the Saints in another kinde of worship then we can here conceive of? How sweet is it to joyne in the high praises of God in the solemn assemblies? How glad have I been to go up to the house of God? Especially after long restraint by sickness, when I have been as Hezekiah, released, and readmitted to joyne with the people of God and to set forth the praises of my great deliverer? How sweet is my work in Preaching the Gospel, and inviting sinners to the marriage feast of the Lamb? and opening to them the treasures of free Grace? Especially when God blesseth my endeavors with plenteous success, and giveth me to see the fruit of my labors: even this alone hath been a greater joy to my heart, that if I had been made the Lord of all the riches on earth.