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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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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.
4 Quest. If one of your old acquaintance and companions in sin, should come from the dead, and tell you, that he suffereth the Torments of Hell for those sins that you are guilty of, and for neglecting those duties which you neglect, and for living such a careless, worldly, ungodly life as you now live, & should therefore advise you to take another course; If you should meet such a one in your Chamber when you are going to bed, and he should say to you, Oh take heed of this carnal unholy life! Set your self to seek the Lord with all your might; neglect not your Soul, Prepare for Eternity, that you