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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.
Thus you see part of your duty for the salvation of others.
But where shall we find the man, that setteth himself to it with all his might, and that hath set his heart upon the souls of his brethren, that they may be saved.
Let us here a little enquire, what may be the causes of the gross neglect of this duty, that the hinderances being discovered, may the more easily be overcome.
1. One hinderance, is, men's own sinfulness and guiltiness. They have not been ravished themselves with the heavenly delights: how then should they draw others to seek them? They have not felt the wickedness of their own nature, nor their loft condition, nor their need of Christ, nor felt the renewing work of the Spirit: how then can they discover these to others? Ah that this were not the case of many a learned preacher in England! And the cause why they preach so frozenly! Men also are guilty ⟨p. 215⟩themselves of the sins they should reprove; and this stops their mouths, and maketh them ashamed to reprove.