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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 5
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5. Consider who shall be Gods Executioners of their Torment; and that is, First, Satan. Secondly, Themselves. First, He that was here so successful in drawing them from Christ, will then be the Instrument of their punishment, for yielding to his temptations. It was a pitiful sight to see the man possessed, that was bound with chains, and lived among the Tombs; and that other that would be cast into the fire, and into the water: but alas, that was nothing to the torment that Satan puts them to in Hell: That is the reward he will give them for all their service; for their rejecting the commands of God, and forsaking Christ, and neglecting their souls at his persuasion. Ah, if they had served Christ as faithfully as they did Satan, and had forsaken all for the love of him, he would have given them a better reward. Secondly, and it is most just also, that they should there be their own tormentors, that they may see that their whole destruction is of themselves; and they who were wilfully the meritorious cause, should also be the efficient in their own sufferings; and then who can they complain of but themselves? and they will be no more able to cease their self-tormenting, then men that we see in a deep Melancholy, that will by no Arguments be taken off from their sorrows.
5. COnsider who shall be Gods Executioners of their Torment; and that is, First, Satan. Secondly, Themselves. First, He that was here so successful in drawing them from Christ, will then be the Instrument of their punishment, for yielding to his temptations. It was a pittiful sight to see the man possessed, that was bound with chains, and lived among the Tombs; and that other that would be cast into the fire, and into the water: but alas, that was nothing to the torment that Satan puts them to in Hel: That is the reward he wil give them for all their service; for their rejecting the commands of God, and forsaking Christ, and neglecting their souls at his perswasion. Ah, if they had served Christ as faithfully as they did Satan, and had forsaken all for the love of him, he would have given them a better reward. Secondly, and it is most just also, that they should there be their own tormentors, that they may see that their whole destruction is of themselves; and they who were wilfully the meritorious cause, should also be the efficient in their own sufferings; and then who can they complain of but themselves? and they will be no more able to cease their self-tormenting, then men that we see in a deep Melancholy, that will by no Arguments be taken off from their sorrows.