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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 6 › Section 5
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.
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14. Moreover; Our diligence should be somewhat answerable to the diligence of our Enemies in seeking our destruction. For if we sit still while they are plotting and labouring, or if we be lazy in our defence, while they are diligent in assaulting us, you may easily conceive how we are likely to speed. How diligent is Satan in all kind of temptations, Therefore, be sober and vigilant, (saith 1 Pet. 5.8.) because your adversary the Devil, as a roaring Lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour; Whom resist steadfast in the Faith. How diligent are all the Ministers of Satan? False Teachers, scorners at godliness, malicious persecutors, all unwearied; And our inward Corruption the most busy and diligent of all: Whatever we are about, it is still resisting us; depraving our duties, perverting our thoughts, dulling our Affections to good, exciting them to evil: And will a feeble resistance then serve our turn? Should not we be more active for our own preservation, then our Enemies for our ruin.
14. MOreover; Our diligence should be somewhat answerable to the diligence of our Enemies in seeking our destruction. For if we sit still while they are plotting and labouring, or if we be lazy in our defence, while they are diligent in assaulting us, you may easily conceive how we are likely to speed. How diligent is Satan in all kind of temptations, Therefore, be sober and vigilant, (saith 1 Pet. 5.8.) because your adversary the Devil, as a roaring Lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour; Whom resist stedfast in the Faith. How diligent are all the Ministers of Satan? False Teachers, scorners at godliness, malicious persecutors, all unwearied; And our inward Corruption the most busie and diligent of all: Whatever we are about, it is still resisting us; depraving our duties, perverting our thoughts, dulling our Affections to good, exciting them to evil: And will a feeble resistance then serve our turn? Should not we be more active for our own preservation, then our Enemies for our ruine.