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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.
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?
2. Jesus Christ was Serious in Purchasing our Redemption. He was Serious in Teaching, when he neglected his meat and drink, Joh. 4.32. He was Serious in Praying, when he continued all night at it, Luk. 6.12. He was Serious in Doing good, when his kindred came and laid hands on him, thinking he had been beside himself, Mark 3.20, 21. He was Serious in Suffering, when he fasted forty days, was tempted, betrayed, spit on, buffeted, ⟨p. 366⟩crowned with thorns, sweat water and blood, was crucified, pierced, dyed: There was no Jesting in all this. And should not we be Serious in seeking our own Salvation?
2. Jesus Christ was Serious in Purchasing our Redemption. He was Serious in Teaching, when he neglected his meat and drink, Joh. 4.32. He was Serious in Praying, when he continued all night at it,