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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 22
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. XXII.
And thus,1 Reader, I dare confidently say, I have showed thee sufficient Reason against thy slothfulness and negligence, if thou be not a man resolved to shut thine eyes, and to destroy thy self wilfully in despite of Reason. Yet, lest all this should not prevail, I will add somewhat more, if it be possible, to persuade thee to be Serious in thy Endeavours for Heaven.
ANd thus,1 Reader, I dare confidently say, I have shewed thee sufficient Reason against thy sloathfulness and negligence, if thou be not a man resolved to shut thine eyes, and to destroy thy self wilfully in despite of Reason. Yet, lest all this should not prevail, I will add somewhat more, if it be possible, to perswade thee to be Serious in thy Endeavors for Heaven.
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1. Consider God is in Good earnest with you; and why then should not you be so with him? In his Commands, he means as he speaks, and will verily require your real Obedience. In his Threatenings he is Serious, and will make them all good against the Rebellious. In his Promises he is Serious, and will fulfil them to the Obedient, even to the least tittle. In his Judgments he is Serious; as he will make his Enemies know to their terror: Was not God in good earnest when he drowned the World? When he consumed Sodom and Gomorrah? When he scattered the Jews? Hath he not been in good sadness with us lately in England, and Ireland, and Germany? And very shortly will he lay hold on his Enemies particularly man by man, and make them know that he is in good earnest: Especially when it comes to the great reckoning day. And is it time then for us to dally with God?