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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 10
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But methinks I perceive the obstinate sinner desperately resolving, If I must be damned, there is no remedy, rather then I will live so precisely as the Scripture requireth, I will put it to the venture, I shall scape as well as the rest of my neighbours, and as the most of the world, and we will even bear it as well as we can.— Answ. Alas, poor creature! would thou didst but know what it is that thou dost so boldly venture on: I dare say thou wouldest sleep this night but very unquietly. Wilt thou leave thy self no room for Hope? Art thou such a malicious implacable enemy to Christ and thy own soul? And dost thou think indeed, that thou canst bear the wrath of God? and go away so easily with these eternal Torments? Yet let me beg this of thee, that before thou dost so flatly resolve, thou wouldest lend me thine attention to these few Questions which I shall put to thee, and weigh them with the reason of a man, and if then thou think thou canst bear these pains, I shall give thee over and say no more.
BUt methinks I perceive the obstinate sinner desperately resolving, If I must be damned, there is no remedy, rather then I will live so precisely as the Scripture requireth, I will put it to the venture, I shall scape as well as the rest of my neighbours, and as the most of the world, and we will even bear it as well as we can.— Answ. Alas, poor creature! would thou didst but know what it is that thou dost so boldly venture on: I dare say thou wouldest sleep this night but very unquietly. Wilt thou leave thy self no room for Hope? Art thou such a malicious implacable enemy to Christ and thy own soul? And dost thou think indeed, that thou canst bear the wrath of God? and go away so easily with these eternal Torments? Yet let me beg this of thee, that before thou dost so flatly resolve, thou wouldest lend me thine attention to these few Questions which I shall put to thee, and weigh them with the reason of a man, and if then thou think thou canst bear these pains, I shall give thee over and say no more.
1. Who art thou, that thou shouldest bear the wrath of God? Art thou a God? or art thou a man? what is thy strength to undergo so much? Is it not as the strength of Wax or Stubble to resist the Fire? or as Chaff to the Wind? or as the Dust before the fierce Whirlwind? Was he not as stout a man as thy self, who cried to God,