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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.
7. Above all, be sure you get down the pride of your hearts. Forget not all the Sermons I preached to you against this sin. No sin more natural, more common, or more deadly. A proud man is his own Idol; only from pride cometh contention. There is no L•ving in peace with a proud person: Every disrespect will cast them into a Fever of ⟨image 7⟩discontent. If once you grow wise in your own eyes, and love to be valued and preferred, and love those best that think highliest of you, and have secret heart-risings against any that disregard you, or have a low esteem of you, and cannot endure to be slighted, or spoke evil of▪ never take your selves for Christians, if this be your case. To be a true Christian without Humility, is as hard as to be a man without a Soul. O poor England! How low art thou brought by the Pride of Ignorant Zealots! Dear Friends! I can foretell you, without the gift of prophecy, That if any among you do fall from the Truth, mark which are the proudest, that cannot endure to be contradicted▪ and that vilify others, and those will likely be they: And if ever you be broke in pieces, and ruined, Pride will be the cause.
7. Above all, be sure you get down the pride of your hearts. Forget not all the Sermons I preached to you against this sin. No sin more natural, more common, or more deadly. A proud man is his own Idol; onely from pride cometh contention. There is no L•ving in peace with a proud person: Every disrespect will cast them into a Feaver of ⟨image 7⟩discontent. If once you grow wise in your own eyes, and love to be valued and preferred, and love those best that think highliest of you, and have secret heart-risings against any that disregard you, or have a low esteem of you, and cannot endure to be flighted, or spoke evil of▪ never take your selves for Christians, if this be your case. To be a true Christian without Humilitie, is as hard as to be a man without a Soul. O poor England! How low art thou brought by the Pride of Ignorant Zealots! Dear Friends! I can foretel you, without the gift of prophecy, That if any among you do fall from the Truth, mark which are the proudest, that cannot endure to be contradicted and that vilifie others, and those will likely be they: And if ever you be broke in pieces, and ruined, Pride will be the cause.