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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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6 Quest. If you had seen the general dissolution of the world, and all the pomp and glory of it consumed to ashes; If you saw all ⟨p. 372⟩on a fire about you, sumptuous buildings, Cities, Kingdoms, Land, Water, Earth, Heaven, all flaming about your ears▪ If you had seen all that men laboured for, and sold their Souls for, gone; friends gone, the place of your former abode gone, the history ended, and all come down, what would such a sight as this persuade you to do? Why such a sight thou shalt certainly see. I put my Question to thee in the words of the Apostle,1 2 Pet. 3.11. Seeing all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? As if he should say, We cannot possibly conceive or express what manner of persons we should be in all holiness and godliness, when we do but think of the sudden, and certain, and terrible dissolution of all things below?
6 Quest. If you had seen the general dissolution of the world, and all the pomp and glory of it consumed to ashes; If you saw all ⟨p. 372⟩on a fire about you, sumptuous buildings, Cities, Kingdoms, Land, Water, Earth, Heaven, all flaming about your ears▪ If you had seen all that men labored for, and sold their Souls for, gone; friends gone, the place of your former abode gone, the history ended, and all come down, what would such a sight as this perswade you to do? Why such a sight thou shalt certainly see. I put my Question to thee in the words of the Apostle,1 2 Pet. 3.11. Seeing all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? As if he should say, We cannot possibly conceive or express what manner of persons we should be in all holiness and godliness, when we do but think of the sudden, and certain, and terrible dissolution of all things below?