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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.
2. When thou art cast into troubles of mind, through sufferings, or fear, or care, or temptations, then it is seasonable to address thyself to this duty. When should we take our cordials, but in our times of fainting? When is it more seasonable to walk to heaven, than when we know not in what corner on earth to live with comfort? Or when should our thoughts converse above, but when they have nothing but grief to converse with below?
Another fit season for this heavenly duty, is, when the messengers of GOD summon us to die; when either our grey hairs, or our languishing bodies, or some such fore-runners of death, tell us that our change cannot be far off; when should we more frequently sweeten our souls with the believing thoughts of another life, than when we find that this is almost ended and when flesh is raising fears and terrors? Surely no m•n have greater need of supporting joys than dying men; and those joys must be fetched from our eternal joy.
It now follows that I speak a word of the fittest place. Though GOD is every where to be found, yet some places are more convenient than others.