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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.
1SECT. XX.
- 1§ 20.
And thus I have endeavoured to show you a glimpse of the approaching Glory: But O how short are my expressions of its excellency? Reader, if thou be an humble, sincere believer, and waitest with longing and labouring for this Rest, thou wilt shortly see and feel the truth of all this; then wilt thou have so high an apprehension of this blessed state, that will make thee pity the ignorance, and distance of Mortals; and will tell thee then, all that is here said, is spoken but in the dark, and falls short of the truth a ⟨p. 133⟩thousand fold. In the mean time, let this much kindle thy desires, and quicken thine endeavours. Up and be doing, run, and strive, and fight, and hold on, for thou hast a certain glorious prize before thee. God will not mock thee; do not mock thy self, nor betray thy soul by delaying or dallying, and all is thine own. What kind of men doest thou think Christians would be in their lives and duties, if they had still this Glory fresh in their thoughts? What frame would their spirits be in, if their thoughts of Heaven were lively, and believing? Would their hearts be so heavy? And their countenance so sad? Or would they have need to take up their comforts from below? Would they be so loath to suffer? And afraid to die? Or would they not think every day a year till they did enjoy it? The Lord heal our carnal hearts, lest we enter not into his REST, because of our unbelief.
ANd thus I have endevored to shew you a glimpse of the approaching Glory: But O how short are my expressions of its excellency? Reader, if thou be an humble, sincere believer, and waitest with longing and laboring for this Rest, thou wilt shortly see and feel the truth of all this; then wilt thou have so high an apprehension of this blessed state, that will make thee pity the ignorance, and distance of Mortals; and will tell thee then, all that is here said, is spoken but in the dark, and falls short of the truth a