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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.
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.
5. Some are so resolved already never to change their present state, that they neglect examination as a useless thing: before they will turn so precise and seek a new way, when they have lived so long, and gone so far, they will put their eternal state to the venture, come of it what will. And when a man is fully resolved to hold to his way, and not to turn back, be it right or wrong, to what end should he enquire whether he be right or no?
6. Most men are so taken up with their worldly affairs, and are so busy in providing for the flesh, that they cannot set themselves to the trying of their title to heaven: they have another kind of happiness in their eye, which will not suffer them to make sure of heaven.
7. But the most common impediment is that false faith and hope commonly called presumption: which bears up the hearts of most of the world, and so keeps them from suspecting their danger.