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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 20
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SECT. XX.
19. Consider how far many a man goes,1 and what a deal of pains he takes for Heaven, and yet misseth it for want of more? When every man that striveth is not crowned, (2 Tim. 2.5.) and many shall seek to enter in, and not be able, (Luk. 13.24.) and the very Children of the Kingdom shall be shut out, (Matth. 13.41.) and they that have heard the Word, and received it with Joy, (Mat. 13.20.) and have heard the Preacher gladly, and done many things after him, shall yet perish, (Mark 6.20.) It is time for us to look about us, and take heed of loitering. When they that seek God daily, and delight to know his ways, and ask of him the Ordinances of Justice, and take Delight in approaching to God, and that in fasting and afflicting their Souls, (Isai. 58.2, 3.) are yet shut out with Hypocrites and Unbelievers: When they that have been enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and of the good Word of God, and of the Powers of the World to come, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, may yet fall away beyond recovery, and crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, ⟨p. 364⟩