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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.
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.
Thus you see what abundance of difficulties must be overcome before a man closely sets upon the examining of his heart.
And if a man break through all these impediments, and set upon the duty, yet, of those few who enquire after means of assurance, divers are deceived and miscarry, especially through these following causes.