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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.
1. That you do not pretend necessity when there is none, out of a mere desire of teaching. There is scarce a more certain discovery of a proud heart, than to be more desirous to teach, than to learn; especially toward those that are fitter to teach us.
1. That you do not pretend necessity when there is none, out of a mere desire of teaching. There is scarce a more certain discovery of a proud heart, than to be more desi••us to teach, than to learn; especially toward those that are fitter to teach us.
2. And when the necessity of your superiors doth call for your advice, yet do it with all possible humility, modesty, and meekness. Let them discern your reverence and submission in the humble manner of your addresses to them. Let them perceive that you do it not out of a mere teaching humour, or proud self-conceitedness. If a wife should tell her husband of sin in a masterly railing language; or if a servant reprove his master, or a child his father in a saucy way, what good could be expected from such reproof? But if they should meekly and humbly open to him his sin and danger, and entreat him to bear with them in what GOD commandeth, and if they could by tears testify their sense of his case: what father, or master, or husband could take this ill?
Object. But some may say, this will make all as preachers, and cause all to break over the bounds of their callings.