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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 Fourth Part. CHAP. I. Reproving our expectation of Rest on earth, with divers Reasons against it. p. 559 •hap. 2. Reproving our loathness to die, and go to our Rest. p. 574 The heinous aggravations of this sin. p. 575 Considerations against it, and to make us willing, and objections answered. p. 583 •hap. 3. A Directory for a heavenly life. 1. Reproof of our unheavenliness, and Exhortation to set our hearts above. p. 598 Twelve moving considerations to heavenly-mindedness. p. 604 •hap. 4. Seven great Hindrances of heavenliness to be avoided. p 645 •hap. 5. Ten general Helps to a heavenly life. p. 668 •hap. 6. The great duty of heavenly meditation described, and the Description explained. p. 686 •hap. 7. Directions, 1. Concerning the fittest Time for this Meditation. p. 696 2. Concerning the fittest Place. p. 712 3. Concerning the preparation of the heart to it. p. 714 ⟨image 13⟩Chap. 8. Of Consideration, and what power it hath to move the soul. p. 718 Chap. 9. What faculties and affections must be acted in this Contemplation. p. 724 By what objects, and considerations, and in what order. ibid. More particularly: 1. The exercise of Judgment. p. 725 2. The acting of Faith. p. 728 3. The acting of Love. p. 731 4. The acting of Desire. p 736 5. The acting of Hope. p. 739 6. The acting of Courage, or holy Boldness and Resolution. p. 742 7. The acting of Joy. p. 744 Chap. 10. By what Actings of the soul to proceed to this work of heavenly Contemplation, beside Cogitation. p. 749 As 1. Soliloquy—Its parts and method. p 750 2. Speaking to God. p. 754 Chap. 11. Some advantages for raising and affecting the soul in its Meditations of Heaven — In general, by making use of sense, or sensitive things. p 756 Particularly, 1. By raising strong suppositions from sense. p. 759 2. By comparing the objects of Sense, with the objects of Faith. p. 761 Twelve helps by comparison to be affected with the Joys of Heaven. p. 76 Chap. 12. Direction how to manage and watch over the heart, whi we are in this work of Contemplation. p. 781 Chap. 13. An abstract, or brief sum of all, for the help of the weak. p. 787 Chap. 14. An example of the acting of Judgment, Faith, Love, Joy, and Desire, by this duty of Heavenly Meditation. p. 790 The Conclusion, commending this duty, from its necessity and excellency. p. 83