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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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7. Consider; The Servants of the World and the Devil are Serious and Diligent:1 They ply their work continually with unweariedness and delight, as if they could never do enough: They make haste, and march furiously, as if they were afraid of coming to Hell too late: They bear down Ministers, and Sermons, and Counsel, and all before them. And shall they do more for the Devil then thou wilt do for God? Or be more diligent for Damnation, then thou wilt be for Salvation? Hast not thou a better Master? and sweeter Employment? and greater Encouragements? and a better Reward?
7. Consider; The Servants of the World and the Devil are Serious and Diligent:1 They ply their work continually with unweariedness and delight, as if they could never do enough: They make haste, and march furiously, as if they were afraid of coming to Hell too late: They bear down Ministers, and Sermons, and Counsel, and all before them. And shal they do more for the Devil then thou wilt do for God? Or be more diligent for Damnation, then thou wilt be for Salvation? Hast not thou a better Master? and sweeter Employment? and greater Encouragements? and a better Reward?
- 1Accidiosi erubescere possunt qui non tam diligenter laborant ad impetrandum gaudium Coeli, sicut multi impiorum laborant ad impetrandum poenam inferni. Fabritius in Destructorio Vitiorum, part. 5. cap. 2. B.
8. The time was when thou wast Serious thy self in thy Service to Satan and the Flesh; if it be not so yet: Dost thou not remember how eagerly thou didst follow thy Sports? or how violently ⟨p. 368⟩thou wast addicted to customs, or evil company, or sinful delights? or how earnestly thou wast bent after thy profits, or rising in the world? And wilt thou not now be more earnest and violent for God? What profit hadst thou then in those things whereof thou art now ashamed?