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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 8
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SECT. VIII.
17. A Gain consider; All the Relations which we stand in toward God, whether common or special, do call upon us for our utmost diligence. Should not the pot be wholly at the service of the Potter? and the creature at the service of his great Creator? Are we his Children? and do we not owe him our most tender affections, and dutiful obedience? Are we the Spouse of Christ? and do we not owe him our observance, and our Love? If he be our Father, ⟨p. 155⟩where is his honour? and if he be our Master, where is his fear?2 Mal. 1.6. We call him Lord and Master, and we do well: but if our industry be not answerable to our assumed relations, we condemn our selves in saying we are his children or his servants. How will the hard labour and daily toil that servants undergo to please their Masters, judg and condemn those men who will not labour so hard for their Great Master? Surely there's none have a better or more honourable Master then we; nor can any expect such fruit of their labours, 1 Cor. 15. ult.
17. A Gain consider; All the Relations which we stand in toward God, whether common or special, do call upon us for our utmost diligence. Should not the pot be wholly at the service of the Potter? and the creature at the service of his great Creator? Are we his Children? and do we not owe him our most tender affections, and dutiful obedience? Are we the Spouse of Christ? and do we not owe him our observance, and our Love? If he be our Father,