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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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5. Consider; The Ministers of Christ are Serious in Instructing and Exhorting you: and why should not you be as Serious in obeying their Instructions? They are Serious in Study; Serious in Prayer; Serious in persuading your Souls to the Obedience of Christ: They beg of God; they beg of you; they hope; they wait, and long more for the Conversion and Salvation of your Souls, then they do for any worldly good: You are their boasting, their Crown and Joy, 1 Thess. 2.19, 20. Your steadfastness in Christ they value as their lives, 1 Thess. 3.8. They are content to be offered up in the service of your Faith, Phil. 2.17. If they kill themselves with Study and Preaching, or if they suffer Martyrdom ⟨p. 367⟩for preaching the Gospel; they think their lives are well bestowed, so that their preaching do but prevail for the saving of your Souls. And shall other men be so painful and careful for your Salvation, and should you be so careless and negligent of your own? Is it not a Serious Charge that is given to Ministers in 2 Tim. 4.1.? And a Serious Pattern that is given them in Act. 20.20, 31.? Surely no man can be bound to be more Serious and Painful for the welfare of another, then he is bound to be for himself.
5. Consider; The Ministers of Christ are Serious in Instructing and Exhorting you: and why should not you be as Serious in obeying their Instructions? They are Serious in Study; Serious in Prayer; Serious in perswading your Souls to the Obedience of Christ: They beg of God; they beg of you; they hope; they wait, and long more for the Conversion and Salvation of your Souls, then they do for any worldly good: You are their boasting, their Crown and Joy, 1 Thess. 2.19, 20. Your stedfastness in Christ they value as their lives,