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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: extracted from the works of Mr. Richard Baxter, by John Wesley, M.A. late fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.
Philadelphia: printed by Prichard & Hall, 1790
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.
And though they know the scripture is the law of GOD, by which they must be acquitted or condemned in judgment; and that it is the property of every blessed man to delight i• this law, and to meditate in it day and night, yet […] they not be at the pains to read a chapter once a […] nor to acquaint their families with this doctrin• of salvation. But if they carry a bible to church, and let it lie by them all the week, this is the most use that they make of it. And though they are commanded to pray without ceasing; and to pray always and not to faint; to continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; yet will they not pray constantly with their families, or in secret. You may hear in their houses two oaths for one prayer. Or if they do any thing this way, it is usually but a running over a few formal words which they have got on their tongues' end, as if they came on purpose to make a jest of prayer, and to mock GOD and their own souls.
And though they know the scripture is the law of GOD, by which they must be acquitted or condemned in judgment; and that it is the property of every blessed man to delight i• this law, and to meditate in it day and night, yet 〈…〉 they not be at the pains to read a chapter once a 〈…〉 nor to acquaint their families with this doctrin• of salvation. But if they carry a bible to church, and let it lie by them all the week, this is the most use that they make of it. And though they are commanded to pray without ceasing; and to pray always and not to faint; to continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; yet will they not pray constantly with their families, or in secret. You may hear in their houses two oaths for one prayer. Or if they do any thing this way, it is usually but a running over a few formal words which they have got on their tongues' end, as if they came on purpose to make a jest of prayer, and to mock GOD and their own souls.