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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
Part 3 › Chapter 4: Some general Helps to Heavenly-mindedness.
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.
If thou prosper in the world, let it make thee more sensible of thy perpetual prosperity: if thou be weary of thy labours, let it make thy thoughts of rest more sweet: if things go cross with thee, let it make thee more carnestly desire that day, when all thy sufferings and sorrows shall cease. Is thy body refreshed with food or sleep? remember the inconceivable refreshings with Christ. Dost thou hear any news that makes thee glad? remember what glad tidings it will be to hear the ••and of the trump of GOD, and the absolving sentence of Christ our judge. Art thou delighting th• s••f in the society of the saints? remember the everlasting amiable society thou shalt have with perfected saints in rest. Is GOD communicating himself to thy spirit? remember that time when thy joy shall be full. Dost thou hear or feel the tempest of wars, or see any cloud of blood arising? remember the day that thou shalt be housed with Christ, where there is nothing but ealmness and amiable union, and where we shall solace ourselves in perfect peace, under the wings of the prince of peace. Thus you may see what advantages to an heavenly life every condition and creature doth afford us, if we have but hearts to apprehend and improve them.
If thou prosper in the world, let it make thee more sensible of thy perpetual prosperity: if thou be weary of thy labours, let it make thy thoughts of rest more sweet: if things go cross with thee, let it make thee more carnestly desire that day, when all thy sufferings and sorrows shall cease. Is thy body refreshed with food or sleep? remember the inconceivable refreshings with Christ. Dost thou hear any news that makes thee glad? remember what glad tidings it will be to hear the ••and of the trump of GOD, and the absolving sentence of Christ our judge. Art thou delightning th• s••f in the society of the saints? remember the everlasting amiable society thou shalt have with perfected saints in rest. Is GOD communicating himself to thy spirit? remember that time when thy joy shall be full. Dost thou hear or feel the tempest of wars, or see any cloud of blood arising? remember the day that thou shalt be housed with Christ, where there is nothing but ealmness and amiable union, and where we shall solace ourselves in perfect peace, under the wings of the prince of peace. Thus you may see what advantages to an heavenly life every condition and creature doth assord us, if we have but hearts to apprehend and improve them.