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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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6. Tell me yet again, if Hell be so small a matter, why canst thou not endure so much as the thoughts or the mention of it? If thou be alone, thou darest scarcely think of Hell, for fear of raising disquietness in thy spirit: If thou being company, thou canst not endure to have any serious speech of it, lest it spoil the sport and mar the mirth, and make thee tremble as Faelix did when Paul was discoursing of the Judgement to come. Thou canst not endure to hear a Minister preach of Hell, but thou gnashest thy teeth; and disdainest him, and reproachest his Sermon, as enough to drive men to desperation or make them mad. And canst thou endure the Torments, when thou canst not endure so much as to hear of them? Alas, man, to hear thy Judgment from the mouth of Christ, and to feel the execution, will be another kind of matter them to hear it from a Minister.
6. Tell me yet again, if Hell be so small a matter, why canst thou not endure so much as the thoughts or the mention of it? If thou be alone, thou darest scarcely think of Hel, for fear of raising disquietness in thy spirit: If thou bein company, thou canst not endure to have any serious speech of it, lest it spoile the sport and mar the mirth, and make thee tremble as Faelix did when Paul was discoursing of the Judgement to come. Thou canst not endure to hear a Minister preach of Hell, but thou gnashest thy teeth; and disdainest him, and reproachest his Sermon, as enough to drive men to desperation or make them mad. And canst thou endure the Torments, when thou canst not endure so much as to hear of them? Alas, man, to hear thy Judgment from the mouth of Christ, and to feel the execution, will be another kinde of matter them to hear it from a Minister.
7. Furthermore, what is the matter that the rich man in Hell mentioned in, Luk. 16. could not make as light of it as thou dost? Was not he as likely a man to bear it as thy self? Why doth he so cry out that he is tormented in the flames? and stoop so low as to beg a ⟨p. 335⟩