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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.
1. Let not the names of men draw thee one way or other, nor make thee partial in Searching for Truth: Dislike the men for their unsound doctrine; but call not doctrine unsound, because it is theirs; nor sound, because of the repute of the Writer.
2. Know this, That as an unhumbled Soul is far apter to give too much to Duty and personal Righteousness, then to Christ: So a humble self-denying Christian is as likely to err on the other hand, in giving less to duty then Christ hath given, and laying all the work from himself on Christ, for fear of robbing Christ of the honour: and so much to look at Christ without him, and think he should look at nothing in himself; that he forgets Christ within him. As Luther said of Melanchthon's self-denying humility, Soli Deo omaia deberi tam obstinaté asserit, ut mihi plané vidcatur saltem in hoc errare quòd Christum ipse fingat longiùs abbess cordi suo, quam sit reverâ—Certé nimis nullus in hoc est Philippus. He so constantly ascribes all to God, that to me he seems directly to err at least in this, that he feigneth or imagineth Christ to be further ⟨p. 68⟩off from his own heart, then indeed he is—Certainly he is too much Nothing in this.
2. Know this, That as an unhumbled Soul is far apter to give too much to Duty and personal Righteousness, then to Christ: So a humble self-denying Christian is as likely to err on the other hand, in giving less to duty then Christ hath given, and laying all the work from himself on Christ, for fear of robbing Christ of the honor: and so much to look at Christ without him, and think he should look at nothing in himself; that he forgets Christ within him. As Luther said of Melancthons self-denying humility, Soli Deo omaia deberi tam obstinaté asserit, ut mihi plané vidcatur saltem in hoc errare quòd Christum ipse fingat longiùs abesse cordi suo, quam sit reverâ—Certé nimis nullus in hoc est Philippus. He so constantly ascribes all to God, that to me he seems directly to err at least in this, that he feigneth or imagineth Christ to be further ⟨p. 68⟩