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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
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3. Let all your Knowledge turn into Affection and Practice; keep open the passage between your heads, and your hearts, that every Truth may go to the quick. Spare not for any pains in working out your salvation: Take heed of loitering, when your souls lie at the stake; Favour not your selves in any slothful distemper; Laziness is the damnation of most that perish among us. God forbid you should be of the mad opinion of the world, That like not serving God so much, nor making so much ado to be saved; All these men will shortly be of another mind. Live now as you would wish you had done at death and ⟨image 5⟩judgment. Let no scorns dishearten you, nor differences of opinion be an offence to you: God, and Scripture, and Heaven, and the Way thither, are still the same. It will do you no good to be of the right Religion, if you be not zealous in the exercise of the Duties of that Religion. Read oft the fifth and sixth Chapters of the third part of this Book.
3. Let all your Knowledg turn into Affection and Practice; keep open the passage between your heads, and your hearts, that every Truth may go to the quick. Spare not for any pains in working out your salvation: Take heed of loitering, when your souls lie at the stake; Favor not your selves in any slothful distemper; Laziness is the damnation of most that perish among us. God forbid you should be of the mad opinion of the world, That like not serving God so much, nor making so much ado to be saved; All these men will shortly be of another minde. Live now as you would wish you had done at death and ⟨image 5⟩judgment. Let no scorns dishearten you, nor differences of opinion be an offence to you: God, and Scripture, and Heaven, and the Way thither, are still the same. It will do you no good to be of the right Religion, if you be not zealous in the exercise of the Duties of that Religion. Read oft the fifth and sixt Chapters of the third part of this Book.