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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 3
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and bid the Admonisher look to himself, and let them alone, ⟨p. 304⟩he should not answer for them, they hope to be saved as soon as these preciser men, that pray, and talk of heaven so much.—Nay, so strong are these mens hopes, that they will dispute the case with Christ himself at Judgment, and plead their eating and drinking in his presence, their Preaching in his Name, and casting out devils, (and these are more probable Arguments, then our Baptism, and common Profession, and name of Christians) they will stiffly deny that ever they neglected Christ in hunger, nakedness, prison, &c. (and if they did, yet that is less then stripping, imprisoning, banishing, or killing Christ in his Members,) till Christ confute them with the sentence of their condemnation: Though the heart of their hopes will be broken at their death, and particular Judgment, yet it seems they would fain plead for some hope at the general Judgment. But O the sad state of these men, when they must bid farewell to all their Hopes! when their Hopes shall all perish with them! Reader, if thou wilt not believe this, it is because thou wilt not believe the Scriptures. The holy Ghost hath spoke it as plain as can be spoken, Prov. 11.7. When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish, and the hope of unjust men perisheth, Prov. 10.28. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. See Isai. 28.15, 18. Job 27.8, 9. For what is the hope of the Hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? Job 8.12, 13, 14. Can the Rush grow up without mire? Can the Flag grow without water? whilst it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withereth before any other herb; So are the paths of all that forget God, and the Hypocrites hope shall perish; whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a Spiders Web; He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand, he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.