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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 18
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. XVIII.
17. Moreover;1 It is a course that all men in the world either do or will approve of. There's not a man that ever was, or is, or shall be, but shall one day justify the Diligence of the Saints, and give his verdict in the approbation of their wisdom. And who would not go that way which every man shall applaud? It is true; it's now a way every where spoken against, and hated: but let me tell you, 1. Most that speak against it, do in their judgments approve of it; only because the practice of ⟨p. 362⟩godliness is against the pleasures of the flesh, therefore do they against their own judgments resist it:2 They have not one word of Reason against it; but reproaches and Railing are their best Arguments. 2. Those that now are against it, whether in Judgment or Passion, will shortly be every man of another mind. If they come to Heaven, their mind must be changed before they come there. If they go to Hell, their Judgment will then be altered whether they will or no. If you could speak with every Soul that suffereth those Torments, and ask their Judgments, Whether it be possible to be too Diligent and Serious in seeking Salvation? you may easily conjecture what answer they would return. Take the most bitter derider or persecutor of godliness, even those that will venture their lives for to overthrow it; If those men do not shortly eat their own words, and wish a thousand times that they had been the most holy diligent Christians on Earth, then let me bear the shame of a false Prophet for ever.
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