The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...

* 1.1SECT. II.

BUt as this duty lyeth upon all in general, so upon some more especially, according as God hath called or qualified them thereto. To them therefore more particularly I will address my exhortation: Whether they be such as have more opportunity and advantages for this work, or such as have better abilities to per∣form it, or such as have both. And these are of severall sorts.

1. All you that God hath given more learning and knowledg to, and endued with better parts for utterance, then your neigh∣bors, God expecteth his duty especially at your hand. The strong are made to help the weak; and those that see must direct the blind. God looketh for this faithfull improvement of your parts and gifts, which if you neglect, it were better for you that you never had received them, for they will but further your condem∣nation; and be as useless to your own Salvation, as they were to others.

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