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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 23
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.
SECT. XXIII.
And now,1 Reader, having laid thee down these undeniable Arguments, I do here in the name of God demand thy Resolution; What sayest thou? Wilt thou yield obedience, or not? I am confident thy Conscience is convinced of thy Duty: Darest thou now go on in thy common careless course, against the plain Evidence of Reason, and Commands of God, and against the light of thy own Conscience? Darest thou live as loosely? and sin as boldly? and pray as seldom and as coldly as before? Darest thou now as carnally spend the Sabbath? and slubber over the Service of God as slightly? and think of thine Everlasting state as carelessly as before? Or dost thou not rather resolve to gird up the loins of thy mind?2 and to set thy self wholly about the work of thy Salvation? and to do it with all thy strength and might? and to break over all the oppositions of the world? and to sleight all their scorns and persecutions? to cast off the weight that hangeth on thee, and the sin that doth so easily beset thee, and to run with patience and speed the race that is before thee?3 I hope these are thy full Resolutions: if thou be well in thy wits, I am sure they are.
ANd now,1 Reader, having laid thee down these undeniable Arguments, I do here in the name of God demand thy Resolution; What sayst thou? Wilt thou yeeld obedience, or not? I am confident thy Conscience is convinced of thy Duty: Darest thou now go on in thy common careless course, against the plain Evidence of Reason, and Commands of God, and against the light of thy own Conscience? Darest thou live as loosely? and sin as boldly? and pray as seldom and as coldly as before? Darest thou now as carnally spend the Sabbath? and slubber over the Service of God as sleightily? and think of thine Everlasting state as carelesly as before? Or dost thou not rather resolve to gird up the loins of thy minde?