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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Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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1650.
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Heaven.
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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 17, 2024.
12. COnsider, how many of the precious Saints of God, of all ages and places, have gone before thee? Thou art not to enter an untrodden path, nor appointed first to break the Ice. Except onely Henoch and Elias, which of the Saints have scaped death? And art thou better then they? There are many millions of Saints dead, more then do now remain on Earth. What a number of thine own bosome friends, and intimate acquaintance, and companions in duty, are now there? and why shouldst thou be
so loth to follow? Nay, hath not Jesus Christ himself gone this way? hath he not sanctified the grave to us? and perfumed the dust with his own body? And art thou loth to follow him too? O rather let us say as Thomas,* 1.2Let us also go, and die with him; or rather, let us suffer with him, that we may be glorified together with him.
Many such like Considerations might be added, as that Christ hath taken out the sting: How light the Saints have made of it; how cheerfully the very Pagans have entertained it, &c. But because all thats hitherto spoken, is also conducible to the same purpose, I pass them by. If what hath been said, will not perswade, Scrip∣ture and Reason have little force.
I have said the more on this subject, finding it so needful to my self and others; finding that among so many Christians, who could do and suffer much for Christ, there's yet so few that can willingly die; and of many who have somewhat subdued other corrupti∣ons; so few have got the conquest of this. This caused me to draw∣forth these Arrows from the quiver of Scripture, and spend them against it.