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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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Thirdly, Tell me also, if thou be so strong, and thy heart so stout, why do those small sufferings so dismay thee which befall thee here? If thou have but a tooth ache, or a fit of the gout, or stone, what groans dost thou utter? What moan dost thou make? The house is filled with thy constant complaints: Thy friends about thee are grieved at thy pains, and stand over thee condoling thy miserable state: If thou shouldest but lose a leg or an arm, thou wouldest make a greater matter of it; If thou lose but a friend, if thou lose thine estate, and fall into poverty, and beggary, and disgrace, how heavily wouldest thou bear any one of these: And yet all these laid together will be one day accounted a happy state, in comparison of that which is suffered in Hell. Let me see thee shake off the most painful sickness, and make as light of Convulsive, Epileptic, Arthritic, Nephritic pains, or such like diseases when they self upon thee, and then the strength of thy spirit will appear. Alas, how many such boasters as thy self, have I seen made stoop and eat their words? And when God hath but let out a little of his wrath▪ that Pharaoh who before asked, Who is the Lord, that I should let all go for him? have turned their tune, and cried, I have sinned.
Thirdly, Tell me also, if thou be so strong, and thy heart so stout, why do those small sufferings so dismay thee which befal thee here? If thou have but a tooth ake, or a fit of the gout, or stone, what groans dost thou utter? What moan dost thou make? The house is filled with thy constant complaints: Thy friends about thee are grieved at thy pains, and stand over thee condoling thy miserable state: If thou shouldest but lose a leg or an arm, thou wouldest make a greater matter of it; If thou lose but a friend, if thou lose thine estate, and fall into poverty, and beggery, and disgrace, how heavily wouldest thou bear any one of these: And yet all these laid together will be one day accounted a happy state, in comparison of that which is suffered in Hel. Let me see thee shake off the most painful sickness, and make as light of Convulsive, Epileptick, Arthritick, Nephritick pains, or such like diseases when they selfe upon thee, and then the strength of thy spirit will appear. Alas, how many such boasters as thy self, have I seen made stoop and eat their words? And when God hath but let out a little of his wrath▪ that Pharaoh who before asked, Who is the Lord, that I should let all go for him? have turned their tune, and cryed, I have sinned.