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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 9: How to manage and watch over the Heart through the whole Work.
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.
CHAP. IX. How to manage and watch over the Heart through the whole Work.
THE last part of this directory, is, to guide you in managing your hearts through this work, and to show you wherein you had need to be exceeding watchful. I have showed before, what must be done with your hearts in your preparations to the work, and in your setting upon it: I shall new show it you, in respect of the time of the performance. Our chief work will here be, to discover to you the danger, and that will direct you to the remedy. Let me therefore acquaint you before-hand, that whenever you set upon this heavenly employment, you shall find your own hearts your greatest hinderer, and they will prove false to you in one or all of these sour degrees. First, they will hold off, that you will hardly get them to the work; or else they will betray you by their idleness in the work, pretending to do it, when they do it not; or they will interrupt the work, by their frequent ⟨p. 370⟩excursions, and turning aside to every object; or they will spoil the work by cutting it short, and be gone before you have done any good at it. Therefore I forewarn you, as you value the invaluable comfort of this work, faithfully resist these four dangerous evils.
THE last part of this directory, is, to guide you in managing your hearts through this work, and to shew you wherein you had need to be exceeding watchful. I have shewed before, what must be done with your hearts in your preparations to the work, and in your setting upon it: I shall new shew it you, in respect of the time of the performance. Our chief work will here be, to discover to you the danger, and that will direct you to the remedy. Let me therefore acquaint you before-hand, that whenever you set upon this heavenly employment, you shall find your own hearts your greatest hinderer, and they will prove false to you in one or all of these sour degrees. First, they will hold off, that you will hardly get them to the work; or else they will betray you by their idleness in the work, pretending to do it, when they do it not; or they will interrupt the work, by their frequent ⟨p. 370⟩