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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 11
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. XI.1
- 1§. 11.
Sixthly, Yet further, it will much add to the torment of these wretches to remember, that God himself did condescend to entreat them, That all the entreatings of the Minister were the entreatings God: How long he did wait, How freely he did offer, how lovingly he did invite, and how importunately he did solicit them. How the spirit did continue striving with their hearts, as if he were loath to take a denial. How Christ stood knocking at the door of their hearts, Sermon after Sermon, and one Sabbath after another; crying out, Open, sinner, open thy heart to thy Saviour, and I will come in, and sup with thee, and thou with me, Rev. 3.20. Why sinner • ⟨p. 290⟩Are thy lusts and carnal pleasures better then I? Are thy worldly Commodities better then my everlasting Kingdom? Why then dost thou resist me? Why dost thou thus delay? What dost thou mean,1 that thou dost not open to me? How long shall it be till thou attain to innocency?2 How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?3 Woe to thee, O unworthy sinner; wilt thou not be made clean? Wilt thou not be pardoned, and sanctified, and made happy?4 When shall it once be? O that thou wouldst hearken to my word, and obey my Gospel! Then should thy peace be as the river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the Sea: though thy sins were as red as the Crimson, or Scarlet, I would make them as white as the Snow, or Wool. O that thou were but wise,