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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 15
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.
1SECT. XV.
- 1§. 15.
Tenthly and lastly, It will yet make the wound in their Consciences much deeper, when they shall remember, that it was not only their own doing, but that they were at so much cost and pains for their own damnation: What great undertakings did they engage in for to effect their ruin? To resist God, to conquer the Spirit, to overcome the power of Mercies, Judgments, and the Word it self, to silence Conscience! all this did they take upon them, and perform. What a number of sins did they manage at once? what difficulties did they set upon? even the conquering of the power of Reason it self. What dangers did they adventure on? Though they walked in continual danger of the wrath of God, and knew he could lay them in the dust in a moment; though they knew they lived in danger of eternal perdition, yet would they run upon all this. What did they forsake for the service of Satan, and pleasures of sin? They forsook their God, their Conscience, their best Friends, their eternal hopes of salvation▪ and all. They that could not tell how to forsake a lust, or a little honour or ease for Christ; yet can lose their souls, and all, for sin. O the labour that it costeth poor wretches to be damned! Sobriety they might have at a cheap rate, and a great deal of health and ease to boot; and yet they will rather have Gluttony and Drunkenness, with poverty, and shame, and sickness, and belchings, and vomitings; with the outcries and lamentations of wife, and children, and Conscience it self. Contentedness they might have with ease and delight; yet will they rather have Covetousness and Ambition, though it cost them study and care, and fears and labour of body and mind, and […] continual unquietness and distraction of spirit, and usually a shameful overthrow at the last Though their anger be nothing but a tormenting themselves, and Revenge and Envy do consume their spirits, and keep them upon a continual ack of disquiet, though uncleanness destroy their bodies, and states, and names; and though they are foretold of the hazard of their eternal Happiness, yet will they do and suffer all this rather then suffer their souls to be saved. How fat runs Gehezi for his Leprosy? what cost and pains is Nimrod at to purchase an universal confusion? How doth an Amorous Amnon pine himself