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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 5 › Section 3
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2. The second sort to be here reproved, are the *profane, ungodly, presumptuous multitude, who will not be persuaded to be at so much pains for salvation, as to perform the common outward duties of Religion. Yea though they are convinced that these duties are commanded by God, and see it before their eyes in the Scripture, yet will they not be brought to the constant practice of them. If they have the Gospel preached in the town where they dwell, it may be they will give the hearing to it one part of the day, and stay at home the other: or if the master come to the congregation, yet part of his family must stay at home. If they want the plain and powerful preaching of the Gospel, how few are there in a whole Town that will either be at cost or pains to procure a Minister; or travel a mile or two to hear abroad? Though they will go many miles to the market for provision for their bodies. The Queen of the South shall rise up in Judgment with this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth, to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold a greater then Solomon doth by his messengers preach to them. The King of Nineveh shall rise up in Judgment with them, and shall condemn them; for he repented at the preaching of Jonah, but when Jesus Christ sendeth his Ambassadors to these men, they will scarce go to hear them, Mat. 12.41, 42. And though they know that the Scripture is the very Law of God, by which they must live, and by which they must be acquit or condemned in Judgment, and that it is the property of every blessed man, to delight in this law, and to meditate in it day and night, Psal. 1.2. Yet will they not be at the pains to read a chapter once in a day, nor to acquaint their families with this doctrine of Salvation: But if they ⟨image 200⟩carry a Bible to Church and let it lye by them all the week, this is the most use that they make of it. And though they are commanded, to pray without ceasing. 1 Thes. 5.17. And to pray always and not wax faint, Luk. 18.1, 2, 3