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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London :: Printed by Rob. White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton ...,
1650.
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Devotional literature.
Heaven.
Future life.
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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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SECT. VII.
* 1.17. ANother Rule is this, That is Best, which not onely supplieth necessity, but affordeth abundance. By necessity is meant here, that which we cannot live without; and by abundance, is meant, a more perfect supply, a comfortable, not a useless abundance. Indeed it is suitable to a Christians state and use, to be scanted here, and to have onely from hand to mouth: And that not onely in his corporal, but in his spiritual comforts; Here we must not be filled full, that so our emptiness may cause hungering and our hungering cause seeking and craving, and our craving testifie our dependance, and occasion receiving, and our receiving occasion thanks-return∣ing, and all advance the Glory of the Giver. But when we shall be brought to the Well-head, and united close to the overflowing
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Fountain, we shall then thirst no more, because we shall be empty no more. Surely if those Blessed Souls did not abound in their Bless∣edness, they would never so abound in praises. Such Blessing, and Honor, and Glory, and Praise to God, would never accompany common mercies: All those Alleluja's are not sure the language of needy men.* 1.2 Now, we are poor, we speak supplications: And our Beggars tone discovers our low condition: All our Language al∣most is complaining and craving; our breath sighing, and our life a laboring. But sure where all this is turned into eternal praising and rejoycing, the case must needs be altered, and all wants suppplied and forgotten. I think their Hearts full of Joy, and their mouthes full of thanks, proves their estate abounding full of Blessedness.
Notes
* 1.1
§. 7. Quicqu••d pre∣ter te est, non ••••fi••it, non suf. fi••it; si a•• tem∣pus suff••cit, non tamen pe p••••••e satiat, quin ad huc ampl••us 〈…〉〈…〉••st, 〈…〉〈…〉 super ••mne visibile, a••dibile, adorabile, gustabile, tangibile, sensibile. Gerson. par. 3 Alp••. bet. di••ini amoris. cap. 14.