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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 6
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1SECT. VI.
- 1§. 6.
Fifthly, Another additional loss will be this, They shall lose all their sensual contentments and delights. That which they esteemed their chiefest good, their heaven, their God, that must they lose as well as Heaven and God himself. They shall then in despite of them fulfil that command,1 which here they would not be persuaded to obey, Rom. 13.14. of making no provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. O what a fall will the proud ambitious man have, from the top of his honours! As his dust and bones will not be known from the dust and bones of the poorest beggar; so neither will his soul be honoured or favoured any more then theirs. What a number of Right Honourable Lords, Right Worshipful Knights and Gentlemen, Right Reverend Fathers and Learned Doctors are now shut out of the presence of Christ? If you say, How can I tell that? Why I answer, because their judg hath told me so: Hath he not said by his Apostle, 1 Cor. 1.26. That not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called? And if they be not called, they be not predestinate, or justified, or glorified. Rom. 8.30. Sure that rich man, Luk. 16. hath now no humble obeisance done him, nor titles of honour put upon him; nor do the poor now wait at his gates to receive of his scraps. They must be shut out of their well-contrived houses, and sumptuous buildings; their comely Chambers, with costly hangings, their soft beds, and easy couches. They shall not find there their gallant walks, their curious Gardens, with variety of beauteous odoriferous fruits and flowers; their rich Pastures and pleasant Meadows, and plenteous Harvest, and Flocks, and Herds. Their tables will not be so spread and furnished, nor they so punctually attended and observed. They have not there variety of Dainty fare, now several courses, nor tempting dishes, prepared to please their appetites to the full: the rich man there fareth not deliciously every day: Neither shall he wear there his purple and fine linen: The jetting gorgeous well dressed gallant, that must not have a pin amiss, that stands as a picture