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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
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.
2. If thou art able to wrestle with the indignation of the Almighty,1 why then dost thou tremble at the signs of his Power, or Wrath? Do not the terrible Thunder-claps sometime fear thee? or the Lightning flashes? or that unseen Power which goes with it, ⟨p. 333⟩in renting in pieces the mighty Oaks, and tearing down the strongest buildings? If thou hadst been in the Church of Withicombe in Devonshire, when the lightning broke in, and scorched and burnt the people, and left the brains and hair upon the pillars, would it not have made thee afraid? If thou be but in a place where the plague doth rage, so that it comes to so many thousand a week, doth it not astonish thee to see men that were well within a few days to be thrown into the graves by heaps and multitudes? If thou hadst stood by when Pharaoh and his people were so strangely plagued, and at last drowned together in the Sea, or when the earth swallowed up Dathan, Abiram and their companies, and the people fled away at the cry, lest the earth should swallow them up also: or when Elijah brought fire from Heaven to consume the Captains and their companies; would not any of these sights have daunted thy spirit? Why, how then canst thou bear the hellish plagues?
2. If thou art able to wrastle with the indignation of the Almighty,1 why then dost thou tremble at the signs of his Power, or Wrath? Do not the terrible Thunder-claps sometime fear thee? or the Lightning flashes? or that unseen Power which goes with it, ⟨p. 333⟩in renting in pieces the mighty Oakes, and tearing down the strongest buildings? If thou hadst been in the Church of Withicombe in Devonshire, when the lightning broke in, and scorched and burnt the people, and left the brains and haire upon the pillars, would it not have made thee afraid? If thou be but in a place where the plague doth rage, so that it comes to so many thousand a week, doth it not astonish thee to see men that were well within a few dayes to be thrown into the graves by heaps and multitudes? If thou hadst stood by when Pharoah and his people were so strangely plagued, and at last drowned together in the Sea, or when the earth swallowed up Dathan, Abiram and their companies, and the people fled away at the cry, lest the earth should swallow them up also: or when Elias brought fire from Heaven to consume the Captains and their compaines; would not any of these sights have daunted thy spirit? Why, how then canst thou bear the hellish plagues?