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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 8
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.
SECT. VIII.1
- 1§. 8.
Thirdly, It will yet more torment them to remember, not only the possibility,1 but the great Probability that once they were in, to obtain the Crown and prevent the misery. It will then wound them, to think, Why I had once the gales of the spirit ⟨p. 286⟩ready to have assisted me. I was fully purposed to have been another man, to have cleaved to Christ, and to have forsook the world; I was almost resolved to have been wholly for God: I was once even turning from my base seducing lusts; I was purposed never to take them up again, I had even cast off my old companions: and was resolved to have associated my self with the godly; And yet I turned back, and lost my hold, and broke my promises, and slacked my purposes; Almost God had persuaded me to be a real Christian, and yet I conquered those persuasions; What workings were in my heart when a faithful Minister pressed home the truth? O how fair was I once for Heaven? I had almost had it, and yet I have lost it; If I had but followed on to seek the Lord, and brought those beginnings to maturity, and blown up the spark of desires and purposes which were kindled in me, I had now been blessed among the Saints.
THirdly, It will yet more torment them to remember, not only the possibility,1 but the great Probability that once they were in, to obtain the Crown and prevent the misery. It will then wound them, to think, Why I had once the gales of the spirit