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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.
2. Some are so possessed with self-love and pride, that they will not so much as suspect any danger to themselves. Like a proud tradesman who scorns the motion when his friends desire him to cast up his books, because they are afraid he will break. As some fond parents that have an over-weaning conceit of their own children, and therefore will not believe ⟨p. 173⟩or hear any evil of them: such a fond self-love doth hinder men from suspecting and trying their states.
2. Some are so possessed with self-love and pride, that they will not so much as suspect any danger to themselves. Like a pround tradesman who scorns the motion when his friends desire him to cast up his books, because they are afraid he will break. As some fond parents that have an over-weaning conceit of their own children, and therefore will not believe ⟨p. 173⟩or hear any evil of them: such a fond self-love doth hinder men from suspecting and trying their states.
3. Some are so guilty that they dare not try: they are so fearful that they should find their estates unsound, that they dare not search into them. And yet they dare venture them to a more dreadful trial.
4. Some are so in love with their sin, and so in dislike with the way of GOD, that they dare not fall on the trial of their ways, lest they be forced from the course which they love.