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 foretasts of it by the help of meditation (1658)
Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 · London, Thomas Underhill and F. Tyton · leaf 818
an unfruitful fadnefs, to a joyful life. In a word, Whatwill not be done one day, do it the next, till thou have pleaded thy heartfrom Earth to Heaven ; from Cv)nverfing below, to a walking with God ;and till thou canfk lay thy heart to reft,as in the bofora of C^^*fi» ^ ^^^I MedttatioMohhy full… … ci 7here remaineth a ^ft to the people of God. SECT. II. Eft I How fweet a word is this to mine ears ? Methinksthe found doth turn to fubftance,and having cntred at thecar, doth pofTefs my brain, and thence defcendeth downto my very heanimeihinks I feel it ftir and work,and thatthrough all my parts…
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