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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.
The Contents of the Third Part. CHAP. I. THE first Use. Showing the unconceivable misery of the wicked in their loss of this Rest. p. 265 The greatness of their loss. 1. They lose all the personal perfection of Soul and Body, which the Saints have. p. 268 2. They lose God himself. p. 270 3. They lose all those spiritual, delightful affections by which the blessed do feed on God. p. 272 4. They lose the society of Angels and Saints. p. 273 Chap. 2. The aggravations of the wickeds loss of Heaven. p. 276 1. Their understandings will be cleared, to know its worth. p. 277 2. And also enlarged, to have deeper apprehensions of it. p. 279 3. Conscience will fully apply it to themselves. ibid. 4. Their affections will be more lively, and enlarged. p 281 5. Their memories strong, to feed their torment. p. 283 Ten things concerning their loss of this Rest, which it will for ever torment them to remember. p. 285 to 298 Chap. 3. Aggravations from the losses which accompany the loss of Rest. p. 299 1. They shall lose their present presumptuous conceit of Gods favour to them, and of their part in Christ. p. 300 2. They shall lose all their Hopes. p. 303 3. They shall lose their present ease and peace. p. 311 4. They shall lose all their carnal mirth. p. 315 5. And all their sensual contentments and delights. p. 316 Chap. 4. The greatness of the damned's torments opened. p. 319 By eight aggravations of them. to p. 328 The certain truth of these torments. ibid. ⟨image 11⟩The intolerableness of this loss and torment discovered, by ten questions. p. 332 Chap. 5. The second Use. Reproving the general neglect of this Rest, and exciting to the utmost diligence in seeking it. p. 339 1. To the worldly minded, that cannot spare time. p. 340 2. To the profane, ungodly, presumptuous multitude. p. 343 3. To lazy, formal, self-deceiving Professors. p. 344 And of these, 1. To the opinionative hypocrite. 2. And the worldly hypocrite. ibid. p. 345 4. To the godly themselves, for their great negligence, Magistrates, Ministers, and People. p. 35• Chap. 6. An exhortation to the greatest seriousness in seeking Rest. p. 349 Twenty lively rational considerations to quicken us up to the greatest diligence that is possible. to p. 350 Ten more very quickening considerations. p. 365 Ten more very quickening, by way of question. p. 369 Ten more peculiar to the godly, to quicken them. p. 374 Chap. 7.
The Contents of the Third Part. CHAP. I. THE first Vse. Shewing the unconceivable misery of the wicked in their loss of this Rest. p. 265 The greatness of their loss. 1. They lose all the personall perfection of Soul and Body, which the Saints have. p. 268 2. They lose God himself. p. 270 3. They lose all those spirituall, delightfull affections by which the blessed do feed on God. p. 272 4. They lose the society of Angels and Saints. p. 273 Chap. 2. The aggravations of the wickeds loss of Heaven. p. 276 1. Their understandings will be cleared, to know its worth. p. 277 2. And also enlarged, to have deeper apprehensions of it. p. 279 3. Conscience will fully apply it to themselves. ibid. 4. Their effections will be more lively, and enlarged. p 281 5. Their memories strong, to feed their torment. p. 283 Ten things concerning their loss of this Rest, which it will for ever torment them to remember. p. 285 to 298 Chap. 3. Aggravations from the losses which accompany the loss of Rest. p. 299 1. They shall lose their present presumptuous conceit of Gods favour to them, and of their part in Christ. p. 300 2. They shall lose all their Hopes. p. 303 3. They shall lose their present ease and peace. p. 311 4. They shall lose all their carnall mirth. p. 315 5. And all their sensuall contentments and delights. p. 316 Chap. 4. The greatness of the damneds torments opened. p. 319 By eight aggravations of them. to p. 328 The certain truth of these torments. ibid.