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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 10
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.
SECT. X.
9. How close should they ply their work,1 who have such great preparations attending them as we have? All the world are our servants, that we may be the Servants of God. The Sun, ⟨p. 356⟩and Moon, and Stars, attend us with their light and influence: The Earth, with all its furniture, is at our service: How many thousand plants and flowers, and fruits, and birds, and beasts do all attend us? The Sea with its inhabitants, the Air, the wind, the frost and snow, the heat and fire, the clouds and rain, all wait upon us while we do our work. Yea the Angels are ministering Spirits for the Service of the Elect. And is it not an intolerable crime for us to trifle, while all these are employed to assist us?2 Nay more; The Patience and Goodness of God doth wait upon us: The Lord Jesus waiteth in the offers of his blood; The Holy Ghost waiteth, in striving with our backward hearts; Besides all his Servants, the Ministers of his Gospel, who study and wait, and preach and wait, and pray and wait upon careless sinners. And shall Angels and Men, yea the Lord himself, stand by, and look on, and, as it were, hold thee the Candle while thou dost nothing? Oh Christians, I beseech you, when ever you are upon your knees in prayer, or reproving the transgressors, or exhorting the obstinate, or upon any duty, do but remember what attendance you have for this work; and then Judg how it behoves you to perform it.
9. HOw close should they ply their work,