SECT. III.* 1.1
3. THe torments of the damned must needs be extream, be∣cause they are the effect of Divine Revenge: Wrath is terrible, but Revenge is implacable: When the great God shall
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 ...
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- 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 ...
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27017.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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say, I will now be righted for all the wrongs that I have born from rebellious creatures; I will let out my wrath, and it shall be staied no more, you shall now pay for all the abuse of my Pati∣ence! Remember now how I waited your leasure in vain, how I stooped to perswade you; how I, as it were, kneeled to intreate you: did you think I would alwayes be slighted by such mis∣creants as you? — O, who can look up when God shall thus plead with them in the heat of Revenge? Then will he be reven∣ged for ever mercy abused, for his creatures consumed in luxury and excess; for every hours time mispent; for the neglect of his word, for the vilifying of his messengers, for the hating of his people, for the prophanation of his ordinances, and neglect of his worship, for the breaking of his Sabbaths, and the grieving of his Spirit, for the taking of his Name in vain, for unmerciful neg∣lect of his servants in distress. O the numberless bils that will be brought in! And the charge that will overcharge the soul of the sinner! And how hotly Revenge will pursue them all to the highest! How God will stand over them with the rod in his hand (not the rod of fatherly chastisement, but that Iron rod wherewith he bruiseth the rebellious) and lay it on for all their neglects of Christ and grace!* 1.2 O that men would foresee this! And not put themselves under the hammer of revenging fury, when they may have the treasure of happiness at so easie rates! And please God better in preventing their woe!
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* 1.1
§. 3.
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* 1.2
Psal. 2.9.