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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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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.
3 Quest. If it were Gods ordinary course to punish every sin with some present Judgment, so that every time a man swears, or is drunk, or speaks a lye, or back-biteth his neighbour, he should be struck dead, or blind, or lame in the place; If God did punish every cold prayer, or neglect of duty with some remarkable plague; what manner of persons would you then be? If you should suddenly fall down dead like Ananias and Sapphira with the sin in your hands, or the plague of God should seize upon you as upon the Israelites, 1while their sweet morsels were yet in their mouths; If but a Mark should be set in the forehead of every one that neglected a duty, or committed a sin; What kind of lives would you then lead? And is not Eternal Wrath more terrible then all this? Give but Reason leave to speak.
3 Quest. If it were Gods ordinary course to punish every sin with some present Judgment, so that every time a man swears, or is drunk, or speaks a lye, or back-biteth his neighbor, he should be struck dead, or blind, or lame in the place; If God did punish every cold prayer, or neglect of duty with some remarkable plague; what manner of persons would you then be? If you should suddenly fall down dead like Ananias and Saphira with the sin in your hands, or the plague of God should seize upon you as upon the Israelites, 1while their sweet morsels were yet in their mouths; If but a Mark should be set in the forehead of every one that neglected a duty, or committed a sin; What kind of lives would you then lead? And is not Eternal Wrath more terrible then all this? Give but Reason leave to speak.