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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 6
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1SECT. VI.
- 1§. 6.
16. Consider also how that their torment will be universal, not upon one part alone, while the rest are free, but as all have joined in the sin, so must they all partake of the torment. The soul, as it was the chief in sinning, shall be chief in suffering; and as it is of a more spiritual and excellent nature then bodies are, so will its torments as far exceed our present bodily sufferings. As the joys of the soul do far surpass all sensual pleasures, and corporal contentments, so do the pains of the soul surpass these corporal ⟨p. 325⟩pains; and as the Martyrs did triumph in the very flames, because their souls were full of joy, though their bodies were in pain; so though these damned creatures could enjoy all their bodily pleasures, yet the souls sufferings would take away the sweetness of them all.
16. COnsider also how that their torment will be universal, not upon one part alone, while the rest are free, but as all have joyned in the sin, so must they all partake of the torment. The soul, as it was the chief in sinning, shall be chief in suffering; and as it is of a more spiritual and excellent nature then bodies are, so will its torments as far exceed our present bodily sufferings. As the joys of the soul do far surpass all sensual pleasures, and corporal contentments, so do the pains of the soul surpass these corporal