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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
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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, Luk. 6.12. He was Serious in Doing good, when his kindred came and layd hands on him, thinking he had been beside himself, Mark 3.20, 21. He was Serious in Suffering, when he fasted fourty 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?
3. The Holy Ghost is Serious in soliciting us for our Happiness. His Motions are frequent, and pressing, and importunate: He striveth with our hearts,