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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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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, Job 13.25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? and he that confesseth, I am a worm and no man, Psal 22.6. If thy strength were as iron, and thy bones as brass, thou couldest not bear; If thy foundation were as the Earth, and thy power as the Heavens, yet shouldest thou perish at the breath of his Indignation: How much more when thou art but a little piece of warm, creeping, breathing Clay, kept a few days from stinking▪ and from being eaten with Worms, by the mere support and favour of him whom thou thus resistest?
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 Chaffe to the Winde? or as the Dust before the fierce Whirlwinde? Was he not as stout a man as thy self, who cryed to God, Job 13.25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? and he that confesseth, I am a worm and no man, Psal 22.6. If thy strength were as iron, and thy bones as brass, thou couldest not bear; If thy foundation were as the Earth, and thy power as the Heavens, yet shouldest thou perish at the breath of his Indignation: How much more when thou art but a little piece of warm, creeping, breathing Clay, kept a few days from stinking▪ and from being eaten with Worms, by the meer support and favor of him whom thou thus resistest?
2. If thou art able to wrestle with the indignation of the Almighty,