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 ...

SECT. IX.

* 1.13. FOr those that think this Rest may be our end, but not our ultimate end, that must be Gods glory onely; let them con∣sider, What God hath joyned, man must not separate. The glori∣fying himself, and the saving his people, (as I judg) are not two Decrees with God; but one Decree, to glorifie his mercy in their salvation: So I think they should be with us, one Intention: We should aim at the glory of God (not alone considered, without our salvation, but) in our salvation. Therefore I know no warrant for putting such a Question to our selves, as some do, Whether we could be content to be damned, so God were glorified * 1.2? Sure I am, Christ himself is offered to faith in terms, for the most part respecting the welfare of the sinner, more then his own abstracted glory: he would be received as a Saviour, Mediator, Redeemer, Reconciler, Intercessor, &c. And all the precepts of Scripture, be∣ing backed with so many promises and threatenings, every one in∣tended of God as a motive to us, do imply as much. If any think they should be distinguished as two several ends, and Gods glory preferred; so they separate them not asunder, I contend not.

Notes

• * 1.1

  §. 9.
• * 1.2

  Christ hath put no such questions to us, nor bid us put such to our selves. Christ had ra∣ther that men would enquire after their true willing∣ness to be sa∣ved, then their willingness to be damned.