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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
THE SAINTS Everlasting REST. PART. III. › Chapter 2 › Section 5
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SECT. V.1
- 1§. 5.
5. Moreover, it will much increase the torment of the damned▪ in that their Memories will be as large and strong as their Understandings and Affections; which will cause those violent Passions to be still working: Were their loss never so great, and their sense of it never so passionate, yet if they could but lose the use of their Memory, those passions would dye, and that loss being forgotten, would little trouble them. But as they cannot lay by their life and being, though then they would account annihilation a singular mercy; so neither can they lay aside any part of that being: Understanding, Conscience, Affections, Memory, must all live to torment them, which should have helped to their Happiness: And as by these they should have fed upon the Love of God, and drawn forth perpetually the Joys of his Presence; ⟨p. 284⟩so by these must they now feed upon the wrath of God, and draw forth continually the dolours of his absence. Therefore never think, that when I say the hardness of their hearts, and their blindness, dullness, and forgetfulness shall be removed, that therefore they are more holy or more happy then before: No, but Morally more vile, and hereby far more miserable. O how many hundred times did God by his Messengers here call upon them, Sinners, consider whether you are going: Do but make a stand a while, and think where your way will end; what is the offered Glory that you so carelessly reject? will not this be bitterness in the end?
5. MOreover, it will much increase the torment of the damned▪ in that their Memories will be as large and strong as their Understandings and Affections; which will cause those violent Passions to be still working: Were their loss never so great, and their sense of it never so passionate, yet if they could but lose the use of their Memory, those passions would dye, and that loss being forgotten, would little trouble them. But as they cannot lay by their life and beeing, though then they would account annihilation a singular mercy; so neither can they lay aside any part of that beeing: Understanding, Conscience, Affections, Memory, must all live to torment them, which should have helped to their Happiness: And as by these they should have fed upon the Love of God, and drawn forth perpetually the Joys of his Presence;