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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 4 › Section 1
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1SECT. I.
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Having thus showed you how great their Loss is who are shut out of Rest, and how it will be aggravated by those Additional losses which will accompany it: I should next here show you the greatness of those Positive sufferings which will accompany this loss. But because I am to Treat of Rest rather then of Torment, I will not meddle with the Explication of the quality of those sufferings▪ but only show their greatness in some few brief discoveries, l•st the careless sinner, while he hears of no other punishment but that of loss, before mentioned, should think he can bear that well enough by his own resolvedness, and so flatter himself ••hop• of a tolerable hell. That there are, besides the loss of Happiness, such actual sensible Torments for the damned, is a matter beyond all doubt, to him that doth not doubt of the truth of the Scripture; ⟨p. 320⟩and that they will be exceeding great, may appear by these Arguments following.
HAving thus shewed you how great their Loss is who are shut out of Rest, and how it will be aggravated by those Additional losses which will accompany it: I should next here shew you the greatness of those Positive sufferings which will accompany this loss. But because I am to Treat of Rest rather then of Torment, I will not meddle with the Explication of the quality of those sufferings but onely shew their greatness in some few brief discoveries, lst the careless sinner, while he hears of no other punishment but that of loss, before mentioned, should think he can bear that well enough by his own resolvedness, and so flatter himself hop of a tollerable hell. That there are, besides the loss of Happiness, such actuall sensible Torments for the damned, is a matter beyond all doubt, to him that doth not doubt of the truth of the Scripture;