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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 16
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. XVI.
15. Consider;1 The greater are your layings out, the greater will be your comings in. Though you may seem to lose your labour at the present, yet the time cometh when you shall find it with advantage. The Seed which is buried and dead, will bring forth a plentiful increase at the Harvest. Whatever you do, and whatever you suffer, this Everlasting Rest will pay for all. There is no repenting of Labours or Sufferings in Heaven: None says, Would I had spared my pains, and prayed less, or been less strict and precise, and done as the rest of my neighbours did: There is never a such a thought in Heaven as these. But on the contrary it will be their Joy to look back upon their labours and tribulations, and to consider how the mighty Power of God did bring them through all. Who ever complained, that he came to Heaven ⟨p. 360⟩at too dear a Rate? or that his Salvation cost him more labour then it was worth? We may say of all our labours, as Paul of our sufferings, Rom. 8.18. For I reckon, that the sufferings (and labours) of this present time, are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which shall be revealed in us. We labour but for a moment, but we shall Rest for ever. Who would not put forth all his strength for one hour, when he may be a Prince while he lives for that hours work? Oh what is the duty and sufferings of a short frail life, which is almost at an end as soon as it begins, in respect of the endless Joys with God? Will not all our tears be then wiped away? and all the sorrow of our duties forgotten? But yet the Lord will not forget them; for he is not unjust to forget our work and labour of Love,