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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. IX.
13. For those that think this Rest may be our end, but not our ultimate end, that must be Gods glory only; let them consider, What God hath joined, man must not separate. The glorifying himself, and the saving his people, (as I judg) are not two Decrees with God; but one Decree, to glorify his mercy in their salvation: So I think they should be with us, one Intention: We should aim at the glory of God (not alone considered, without our salvation, but) in our salvation. Therefore I know no warrant for putting such a Question to our selves, as some do, Whether we could be content to be damned, so God were glorified*? Sure I am, Christ himself is offered to faith in terms, for the most part respecting the welfare of the sinner, more then his own abstracted glory: he would be received as a Saviour, Mediator, Redeemer, Reconciler, Intercessor, &c. And all the precepts of Scripture, being backed with so many promises and threatenings, every one intended of God as a motive to us, do imply as much. If any think they should be distinguished as two several ends, and Gods glory preferred; so they separate them not asunder, I contend not.
13. FOr those that think this Rest may be our end, but not our ultimate end, that must be Gods glory onely; let them consider, What God hath joyned, man must not separate. The glorifying himself, and the saving his people, (as I judg) are not two Decrees with God; but one Decree, to glorifie his mercy in their salvation: So I think they should be with us, one Intention: We should aim at the glory of God (not alone considered, without our salvation, but) in our salvation. Therefore I know no warrant for putting such a Question to our selves, as some do, Whether we could be content to be damned, so God were glorified