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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 Conclusion.
And thus I have explained to you the subject of my Text, and showed you darkly, and in part, what this Rest is; and briefly, who are this People of God. O that the Lord would now open your eyes, and your hearts, to discern, and be affected with the Glory Revealed! That he would take off your hearts from these dunghill delights, and ravish them with the views of these Everlasting Pleasures! That he would bring you into the state of this Holy and Heavenly People, for whom alone this Rest remaineth! That you would exactly try your selves by the foregoing Description; That no Soul of you, might be so damnably deluded, as to take your natural or acquired parts, for the Characters of a Saint! O happy, and thrice happy you, if these Sermons might have such success with your Souls, That so you might die the death of the Righteous, and your last End might be like his! For this Blessed Issue, as I here gladly wait upon you in Preaching, so will I also wait upon the Lord in Praying.
ANd thus I have explained to you the subject of my Text, and shewed you darkly, and in part, what this Rest is; and briefly, who are this People of God. O that the Lord would now open your eyes, and your hearts, to discern, and be affected with the Glory Revealed! That he would take off your hearts from these dunghil delights, and ravish them with the views of these Everlasting Pleasures! That he would bring you into the state of this Holy and Heavenly People, for whom alone this Rest remaineth! That you would exactly try your selves by the foregoing Description; That no Soul of you, might be so damnably deluded, as to take your natural or acquired parts, for the Characters of a Saint! O happy, and thrice happy you, if these Sermons might have such success with your Souls, That so you might die the death of the Righteous, and your last End might be like his! For this Blessed Issue, as I here gladly wait upon you in Preaching, so will I also wait upon the Lord in Praying.