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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 3 › Section 1
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. I.1
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Having showed you those considerations which will then aggravate their misery, I am next to show you their Additional losses which will aggravate it. For as Godliness hath the promise both of this life and that which is to come, and as God hath said, that if we first seek his Kingdom and Righteousness, all things else shall be added to us: so also are the ungodly threatened with the loss both of spiritual and of corporal blessings; and because they sought not first Christs Kingdom and righteousness, therefore shall they lose both it, and that which they did seek; and there shall be taken from them even that little which they have. If they could but have kept their present enjoyments, they would not much have cared for the loss of Heaven: let them take it that have more mind of it; But catching at the shadow and loosing the substance, they now find that they have lost both, and that when ⟨p. 300⟩they rejected Christ, they rejected all things. If they had lost and forsaken all for Christ, they would have found all again in him; for he would have been all in all to them: But now they have forsaken Christ for other things, they shall lose Christ and that also for which they did forsake him.
HAving shewed you those considerations which will then aggravate their misery, I am next to shew you their Additonall losses which will aggravate it. For as Godliness hath the promise both of this life and that which is to come, and as God hath said, that if we first seek his Kingdom and Righteousness, all things else shall be added to us: so also are the ungodly threated with the loss both of spiritual and of corporal blessings; and because they sought not first Christs Kingdom and righteousness, therefore shall they lose both it, and that which they did seek; and there shall be taken from them even that little which they have. If they could but have kept their present enjoyments, they would not much have cared for the loss of Heaven: let them take it that have more minde of it; But catching at the shadow and loosing the substance, they now finde that they have lost both, and that when