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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.
Can Christ be believed in, where our own Righteousness, or any other thing is trusted as our Saviour?1 Or doth God ever throughly discover sin, and misery, and clearly take the heart from all Creatures, and Self-righteousness, and yet leave the soul unrenewed? The truth is, where the work is sincere, there it is entire; and all these parts are truly wrought: And as turning from the Creature to God, and not by Christ, is no true turning; so believing in Christ, while the Creature hath our hearts, is no true believing. And therefore in the work of Self-examination, whoever would find in himself a through-sincere work, must find an entire work; even the one of these as well as the other. In the review of which entire work, there is no doubt but his soul may take comfort. And it is not to be made so light of, as most do, nor put by with a wet finger, That Scripture doth so ordinarily put Repentance before Faith, and make them jointly conditions of the Gospel: Which Repentance contains those acts of the Wills aversion, from sin and Creatures, before expressed. It is true, if we take Faith in the largest sense of all*, then it contains Repentance in it; but if we take it strictly, no doubt there is some acts of it go before Repentance, and some follow after.
Can Christ be believed in, where our own Righteousness, or any other thing is trusted as our Saviour?1 Or doth God ever throughly discover sin, and misery, and clearly take the heart from all Creatures, and Self-righteousness, and yet leave the soul unrenewed? The truth is, where the work is sincere, there it is intire; and all these parts are truly wrought: And as turning from the Creature to God, and not by Christ, is no true turning; so believing in Christ, while the Creature hath our hearts, is no true believing. And therefore in the work of Self-examination, whoever would finde in himself a through-sincere work, must finde an entire work; even the one of these as well as the other. In the review of which intire work, there is no doubt but his soul may take comfort. And it is not to be made so light of, as most do, nor put by with a wet finger, That Scripture doth so ordinarily put Repentance before Faith, and make them joyntly conditions of the Gospel: Which Repentance contains those acts of the Wills aversion, from sin and Creatures, before exprest. It is true, if we take Faith in the largest sense of all