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Two sheets for poor families
Two sheets for poor families ... by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Francis Tyton, 1665
The Second Sheet for Poor Familes: INSTRUCTIONS FOR A Holy Life.
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.
V. Live in the Belief, and Hopes of Heaven, and seek it as your part and end; and daily Delight your souls in the forethoughts, 1of the endless sight and Love of God. As God is seen on earth but as in a glass, so is he proportionably enjoyed. But when mourning, seeking Love hath done, and sin and enemies are overcome, and we behold the Glory of God in Heaven, the Delights of Love will then be perfect. You may desire more on Earth, than you may Hope for. Look not for a Kingdom of this world, nor for Mount Zion in the wilderness. Christ Reigneth on Earth, as Moses in the Camp, to guide us to the Land of Promise: Our perfect blessedness will be, where the Kingdom is delivered up to the Father, and God is All in All. A doubt, or a strange heartless thought of Heaven, is Water cast on the Sacred fire, to quench your Holiness and your Joy. Can you travel one whole day to such an End; and never think of the place that you are going to? which must be intended in every righteous act (either notedly, or by the ready unobserved act of a potent habit.) When Earth is at the best, it will not be Heaven. You live no further by Faith like Christians, then you either live for Heaven in seeking it, or else upon Heaven in Hope and Joy.
V. Live in the Belief, and Hopes of Heaven, and seek it as your part and end; and daily Delight your souls in the forethoughts, 1of the endless sight and Love of God. As God is seen on earth but as in a glass, so is he proportionably enjoyed. But when mourning, seeking Love hath done, and sin and enemies are overcome, and we behold the Glory of God in Heaven, the Delights of Love will then be perfect. You may desire more on Earth, than you may Hope for. Look not for a Kingdom of this world, nor for Mount Zion in the wilderness. Christ Reigneth on Earth, as Moses in the Camp, to guide us to the Land of Promise: Our perfect blessedness will be, where the Kingdome is delivered up to the Father, and God is All in All. A doubt, or a strange heartless thought of Heaven, is Water cast on the Sacred fire, to quench your Holiness and your Joy. Can you travel one whole day to s•ch an End; and never think of the place that you are going to? which must be intended in every righteous act (either notedly, or by the ready unobserved act of a potent habit.) When Earth is at the best, it will not be Heaven. You live no further by Faith like Christians, then you either live for Heaven in seeking it, or else upon Heaven in Hope and Ioy.