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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.
6. How Serious and Diligent are all the Creatures in their Service to thee?1 What haste makes the Sun to compass the World? and how truly doth it return at its appointed hour? So do the Moon and other Planets. The Springs are always flowing for thy use; The Rivers still running: The Spring and Harvest keep their times. How hard doth thy Ox labour for thee from day to day? How painfully and speedily doth thy Horse bear thee in travel? And shall all these be laborious, and thou only negligent? Shall they all be so Serious in serving thee, and yet thou be so slightly in thy Service to God?
6. How Serious and Diligent are all the Creatures in their Service to thee?1 What haste makes the Sun to compass the World? and how truly doth it return at its appointed hour? So do the Moon and other Planets. The Springs are always flowing for thy use; The Rivers still running: The Spring and Harvest keep their times. How hard doth thy Ox labor for thee from day to day? How painfully and speedily doth thy Horse bear thee in travel? And shall all these be laborious, and thou onely negligent? Shall they all be so Serious in serving thee, and yet thou be so sleightly in thy Service to God?
- 1Lege Fabritium in Destructor. Vitiorum, part. 5. cap. 2. A. Ubi elegantem etiam historiā refert ex Linco: de oculo Morali de Monacho Episcopum ignavum reprehendente & inter eos colloquio: Et ex Augustino solem ignavum exprobrantem infert.Lege Fabritium in Destructor. Vitiorum, part. 5. cap. 2. A. Vbi elegantem etiam historiā refert ex Linco: de oculo Morali de Monacho Episcopum ignavum reprehendente & inter eos colloquio: Et ex Augustino solem ignavum exprobrantem infert.
7. Consider; The Servants of the World and the Devil are Serious and Diligent: