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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 24
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SECT. XXIV.
1 Quest. 1IF you could grow Rich by Religion, or get Lands and Lordships by being diligent in godliness; or if you could get honour or preferment by it in the world; or could be recovered ⟨p. 370⟩from sickness by it, or could live for ever in prosperity on Earth; What kind of lives would you then lead? and what pains would you take in the Service of God? And is not the Rest of the Saints a more excellent Happiness then all this?
1 Quest. 1IF you could grow Rich by Religion, or get Lands and Lordships by being diligent in godliness; or if you could get honor or preferment by it in the world; or could be recovered ⟨p. 370⟩from sickness by it, or could live for ever in prosperity on Earth; What kind of lives would you then lead? and what pains would you take in the Service of God? And is not the Rest of the Saints a more excellent Happiness then all this?
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2 Quest. If the Law of the Land did punish every breach of the Sabbath, or every omission of family duties, or secret duties, or every cold and heartless prayer with Death; If it were Felony or Treason to be ungodly and negligent in Worship and loose in your lives; What manner of persons would you then be? and what lives would you lead? And is not Eternal death more terrible then temporal.