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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 6
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SECT. VI.
5. Our Affections and Endeavours should bear some proportion with the Talents which we have received,1 and means which we have enjoyed. It may well be expected, that a horseman should go faster then a footman; and he that hath a swift horse, faster then he that hath a slow one: More work will be expected from a sound man, then from the sick; and from a man at age,2 then from a Child: And to whom men commit much, from them they will expect the more. Now the Talents which we have received are many and great: The means which we have enjoyed are very much, and very precious: What people breathing on earth have had plainer Instructions? or more forcible Persuasions? or more constant Admonitions? in season and out of season? Sermons till we have been weary of them; and Sabbaths till we profaned them? Excellent Books in such plenty, that we knew not which to read; but loathing them through abundance have thrown by all? What people have had God so near them, as we have had? or have seen Christ, as it were, crucified before their eyes, as we have done? What people have had Heaven and Hell, as it were, opened unto them, as we? Scarce a day wherein we have not had some spur to put us on. What speed then should such a people make for Heaven? And how should they fly that are thus winged? and how swiftly should they sail that have wind and tide to help them? Believe it Brethren, God looks for more from England, then from most Nations in the World; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, then from the dark untaught Congregations of the Land. A small measure of grace beseems not such a people; nor will an ordinary diligence in the work of God excuse them.