The Saint's Everlasting Rest: A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in HeavenBaxter, Richard
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The Saint's Everlasting Rest: A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven
Baxter, Richard
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'Tis wonderful it should be designed for mortals, 71
1. The people of God, who shall enjoy it, are chosen from eternity, 72
2. They are given to Christ, ibid
3. They are born again, ibid
4. They are deeply convinced of the evil of sin, 73
their misery by sin, the vanity of the creatures, 74
and the all-sufficiency of Christ, 75
5. Their will is proportionably changed, 76
6. They engage in covenant with Christ, 77
7. They persevere in their engagements, 78
The reader is invited to self-examination, ibid
That the people of God shall enjoy this rest, and 80
none but they, is further proved by Scripture; 82
and that they shall not enjoy it till they come to
another world, 83
where their souls shall enjoy it while separated
from their bodies. 84
CHAP. V.
_The misery of those that lose the Saint's Rest._
The reader, if unregenerate, urged to consider this loss, 89
1. They lose the personal perfections of the saints; 91
2. God himself; ibid
3. All delightful affections towards God; 92
4. The blessed society of angels and glorified spirits, ibid
Their loss will be greatly aggravated, by having
1. Their understanding cleared; 94
2. Also enlarged: ibid
3. Their consciences brought to a true and close application: 95
4. Their affections more lively: 96
5. Their memories strengthened. ibid
CHAP. VI.
_The misery of those, who, besides losing the Saint's Rest, lose the
enjoyments of time, and suffer the torments of hell._
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