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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.
But why tremblest thou, Oh humble gracious Soul? Cannot the enemies and slighters of Christ be foretold their doom, but Thou must quake?1 Do I make sad the Soul that God would not have sad? Doth not thy Lord know his own sheep, who have heard his voice and followed him? He that would not lose the family of one Noah in a common deluge, when him only he had found faithful in all the earth: He that would not over-look one Lot in Sodom; nay, that could do nothing till he were forth: Will he forget thee at that day? Thy Lord knoweth now to deliver the godly out of temptations, 2and to reserve the unjust to the day of Judgment to be punished: He knoweth how to make the same day the greatest for terror to his foes, and yet the greatest for joy to his people. He ever intended it for the great distinguishing and separating day: wherein both Love and Fury should be manifested to the highest.3 ⟨p. 61⟩Oh then let the Heavens rejoice, 4the Sea, the Earth, the Floods, the Hills, for the Lord cometh to judg the Earth: With Righteousness shall he judg the World, and the People with Equity. But especially let Zion hear, and be glad, and her children rejoice: For when God ariseth to judgment, it is to save the meek of the Earth. They have judged and condemned themselves many a day in heartbreaking confession, and therefore shall not be judged to condemnation by the Lord: For there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, 5who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. And who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? Shall the Law? Why, whatsoever the Law saith, it saith to them that are under the Law: but we are not under the Law, but under Grace: For the Law of the Spirit of life, which is in Christ Jesus, hath made us free from the Law of sin and death: Or shall Conscience?6 Why, we were long ago justified by faith, and so have peace with God; and have our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and the Spirit bearing witness with our spirits, that we are the children of God.