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A27017	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 ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633.	1650 (1650)	Wing B1383; ESTC R17757	797,603	962

the dolors of a greivous wilderness Believe it Reader if thou knewest but what a cordial in thy griefs and care the serious views of glory are thou wouldst less fear these harmles troubles and more use that preserving reviving Remedy I would not have thee as Mountebanks take poyson first and then their Antidote to shew its power so to create thy affliction to try this remedy But if God reach thee forth the bitterest cup drop in but a little of the Tastes of Heaven and I warrant thee it will sufficiently sweeten it to thy spirit If the case thou art in seem never so dangerous take but a little of this Antidote of Rest and never fear the pain or danger I will give thee to confirm this but the Example of David and the Opinion of Paul and desire thee throughly to consider of both In the multitude of my thoughts within me saith David thy comforts delight my soul Psal. 94.19 As if he should say I have multitudes of sadding thoughts that crowd upon me thoughts of my sins and thoughts of my foes thoughts of my dangers and thoughts of my pains yet in the midst of all this crowd one serious thought of the comforts of thy Love and especially of the comfortable life in Glory doth so dispel the throng and scatter my cares and disperse the clouds that my troubles had raised that they do even revive and delight my soul. And Paul when he had cast up his full accounts gives thee the sum in Rom. 8 18. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us Study these words well for every one of them is full of life If these true sayings of God were truly and deeply fixt in thy heart and if thou couldst in thy sober Mediditation but draw out the comfort of this one Scripture I dare them it would sweeten the bitterest cross and in a sort make thee forget thy trouble as Christ saith A woman forgets her travail for joy that a man is born into the world yea and make thee rejoyce in thy tribulation I will add but one Text more 2 Cor 4.16.17 For which cause we faint not but though our outward man perish yet the inward is renewed day by day For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory While we look not at the things which are seen but the things which are not seen For the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal SECT VII 3. ANother fit Season for this heavenly duty is When the Messengers of God do summon us to die when either our gray hairs or our languishing bodies or some such like forerunners of death do tell us that our change cannot be far off when should we most frequently sweeten our souls with the believing thoughts of another life then when we finde that this is almost ended and when Flesh is raising fears and terrors Surely no men have greater need of supporting joyes then dying men and those joyes must be fetcht from our eternal joy Men that have earthly pleasures in their hands may think they are well though they taste no more but when a man is dying and parting with all other pleasures he must then fetch his pleasure from Heaven or have none when health is gone and friends lye weeping about our beds when houses and lands and goods and wealth cannot afford us the least relief but we are taking our leave of earth for ever except a hole for our bodies to rot in when we are daily expecting our final day it s now time to look to heaven and to fetch in comfort and support from thence and as heavenly delights are sweetest when they are unmixed and pure and have no earthly delights conjoyned with them so therefore the delights of dying Christians are oft-times the sweetest that ever they had Therefore have the Saints been generally observed to be then most Heavenly when they were neerest dying what a Prophetical blessing hath Jacob for his sons when he lay a dying And so Isaac what a heavenly Song what a Divine Benediction doth Moses conclude his life withal Deut. 32. 33. Nay as our Saviour increased in Wisdome and Knowledg so did he also in their blessed expressions and still the last the sweetest what a heavenly prayer what heavenly advice doth he leave his Disciples when he is about to leave them when he saw he must leave the world and go to the Father how doth he weane them from worldly expectations How doth he minde them of the Mansions in his Fathers House and remember them of his coming again to fetch them thither and open the union they shall have with him and with each other and promise them to be with him to behold his Glory There 's more worth in those four Chapters John 14.15.16.17 then in all the Books in the world beside When Blessed Paul was ready to be offered up what heavenly Exhortation doth he give the Philippians what advice to Timothy what counsel to the Elders of the Ephesian Church Acts 20. How neer was S. John to heaven in his banishment in Patmos a little before his translation to Heaven what heavenly discourse hath Luther in his last sickness How close was Calvin to his Divine studies in his very sickness that when they would have disswaded him from it He answers Vultisne me otiosum a domino apprehendi What would you have God finde me idle I have not lived idly and shall I dye idly The like may be said of our famous Reignolds When excellent Bucholcer was neer his end he wrote his Book De Consol●ti●ne Decumbentium Then it was that Tossianus wrote his Vade mecum Then Doctor Preston was upon the Attribut●s of God And then Mr Bolton was on the Joyes of Heaven It were end less to enumerate the eminent examples of this kinde It is the general temper of the spirits of the Saints to be then most Heavenly when they are neerest to Heaven As we use to say of the old and the weak that they have one foot in the grave already so may we say of the godly when they are neer their Rest they have one foot as it were in Heaven already When should a Traveller look homewards with joy but when he is come within the sight of his home It s true the pains of our bodies and the fainting of our spirits may somewhat abate the liveliness of our joy but the measure we have will be the more pure and spiritual by how much the less it is kindled from the Flesh. O that we who are daily languishing could learn this daily heavenly conversing and could say as the Apostle in the forecited place 2 Cor. 4.16 17 18 O that every gripe that our bodies feel might make us more sensible of future ease and that every

his name there was scorning at his worship and swearing by his name And now Hell must therefore be their habitation for ever where they shall never be troubled with that worship and duty which they abhorred but joyn with the rest of the damned in blaspheming that God who is avenging their former impieties and blasphemies Can it probably be expcted that they who made themselves merry while they lived on earth in deriding the persons and families of the godly for their frequent worshiping and praising God should at last be admitted into the Familie of Heaven and joyn with those Saints in those more perfect praises Surely without a sound change upon their hearts before they go hence it is utterly impossible It is too late then to say Give us of your oyl for our Lamps are out Let us now enter with you to the marriage feast let us now joyn with you in the joyfull Heavenly melody You should have joyned in it on earth if you would have joyned in Heaven As your eyes must be taken up with other kinde of sights so must your hearts be taken up with other kinde of thoughts and your voices turned to another tune As the doors of heaven will be shut against you so will that joyous imployment be denied to you There is no singing the songs of Zion in the land of your thraldome Those that go down to the pit do not praise him Who can rejoyce in the place of sorrows And who can be glad in the land of confusion God suits mens imployments to their natures The bent of your spirits was another way your hearts were never set upon God in your lives you were never admirers of his Attributes and works nor ever throughly warmed with his love you never longed after the enjoyment of him you had no delight to speak or to hear of him you were weary of a Sermon or Prayer an hour long you had rather have continued on earth if you had known how you had rather yet have a place of earthly preferment or lands and lordships or a feast or sports or your cups or whores then to be interessed in the Glorious Praises of God and is it meet then that you should be members of the Celestiall Quire A Swine is fitter for a Lecture of Philosophy or an Ass to build a City or govern a Kingdom or a dead Corps to feast at thy Table then thou art for this work of Heavenly Praise SECT VI. FOurthly They shall also be deprived of the Blessed society of Angels and glorified Saints Instead of being companions of those happy spirits and numbred with those Joyful and Triumphing Kings they must now be members of the corporation of hell where they shall have companions of a far different nature and quality While they lived on earth they loathed the Saints they imprisoned banished them and cast them out of their societies or at least they would not be their companions in labour and in sufferings And therefore they shall not now be their companions in their Glory Scorning them and abusing them hating them and rejoycing in their calamities was not the way to obtain their blessedness If you would have shined with them as Stars in the Firmament of their Father you should have joyned with them in their holiness and faith and painfulness and patience you should have first been ingraffed with them into Christ the common stock and then incorporated into the fraternity of the members and walked with them in singleness of heart and watched with them with oyl in your Lamps and joyned with them in mutuall exhortation in faithfull admonitions in conscionable reformation in prayer and in praise you should have travelled with them out of the Egypt of your naturall estate through the Red Sea and Wilderness of humiliation and affliction and have cheerfully taken up the Cross of Christ as well as the name prefession of Christians and rejoyced with them in suffering persecution and tribulation All this if you had faithfully done you might now have been triumphing with them in glory and have possessed with them their masters joy But this you could not you would not endure your souls loathed it your flesh was against it and that flesh must be pleased though you were told plainly and frequently what would come of it and now you pertake of the fruit of your folly and endure but what you were foretold you must endure and are shut out of that company from which you first shut out your selves and are separated but from them whom you would not be joyned with You could not endure them in your houses nor in your Towns nor scarce in the Kingdom you took them as Ahab did Elias for the troublers of the land and as the Apostles were taken for men that turned the world upside down If any thing fell out amiss you thought all was long of them When they were dead or banished you were glad they were gone and thought the Countrey was well rid of them They molested you with their faithfull reproving your sin Their holy conversations did trouble your consciences to see them so far excell your selves and to condemn your loosness by their strictness and your prophaness by their conscionable lives and your negligence by their unwearyed diligence You scarce ever heard them pray or sing praises in their families but it was a vexation to you And you envyed their liberty in the worshipping of God And is it then any wonder if you be separated from them hereafter I have heard of those that have said that if the Puritans were in Heaven and the good fellows in Hell they had rather go to Hell then to Heaven And can they think much to have their desires granted them The day is neer when they will trouble you no more betwixt them and you will be a great gulf set that those that would pass from thence to you if any had a desire to ease you with a drop of water cannot neither can they pass to them who would go from you for if they could there would none be left behinde Luk. 16.26 Even in this life while the Saints were imperfect in their passions and infirmities cloathed with the same frail flesh as other men and were mocked destitute afflicted and tormented yet in the judgment of the Holy Ghost they were such of whom the world was not worthy Heb. 11.36 37 38. Much more unworthy are they of their fellowship in their Glory CHAP. II. The aggravations of the loss of Heaven to the ungodly SECT I. I Know many of the wicked will be ready to think If this be all they do not much care they can bear it well enough what care they for losing the perfections above What care they for losing God his favor or his presence they lived merrily without him on earth and why should it be so grievous to be without him hereafter And what care they for being deprived of that Love and Joy and

we shall be raised from many yeers rottenness and dust and that dust exalted to a Sun-like glory and that glory perpetuated to all eternity VVhat sayest thou Christian Is not this the greatest of miracles or wonders Surely if we observe but common providences the Motions of the Sun the Tides of the Sea the standing of the Earth the warming it the watering it with Rain as a Garden the keeping in order a wicked confused world with multitudes the like they are all very admirable But then to think of the Sion of God of the Vision of the Divine Majesty of the comely Order of the Heavenly Host what an admirable sight must that needs be O what rare and mighty works have we seen in Britain in four or five yeers what changes what subduing of enemies what clear discoveries of an Almighty Arm what magnifying of weakness what casting down of strength what wonders wrought by most improbable means what bringing to Hell and bringing back what turning of tears and fears into safety and joy such hearing of earnest prayers as if God could have denyed us nothing that we asked All these were wonderful heart-raising works But O what are these to our full deliverance to our final conquest to our eternal triumph and to that great day of great things SECT IX 7. COmpare also the Mercies which thou shalt have above with those particular Providences which thou hast enjoyed thy self and those observable Mercies which thou hast recorded through thy life If thou be a Christian indeed I know thou hast if not in thy Book yet certainly in thy Heart a great many precious favors upon record The very remembrance and rehearsal of them is sweet How much more sweet was the actual enjoyment But all these are nothing to the Mercies which are above Look over the excellent Mercies of thy Youth and Education the mercies of thy riper yeers or age the mercies of thy prosperity and of thy adversity the mercies of thy several places and relations are they not excellent and innumerable Canst not thou think on the several places thou hast lived in and remember that they have each had their several mercies the mercies of such a place and such a place and all of them very rich and engaging Mercies O how sweet was it to thee when God resolved thy last doubts when he overcame and silenced thy fears and unbelief when he prevented the inconveniences of thy life which thy own counsel would have cast thee into when he eased thy pains when he healed thy sickness and raised thee up as from the very grave and death when thou prayedst and wepst as Hezekiah and saidst My days are cut off I shall go to the gates of the grave I am deprived of the residue of my yeers I said I shall not see the Lord even the Lord in the Land of the Living I shall behold man no more with the Inhabitants of the World Mine age is departed and removed from me as a Shepherds Tent I have cut off like a Weaver my life he will cut me off with pining sickness from day to day wilt thou make an end of me c. Yet did he in love to thy soul deliver it from the pit of corruption and cast thy sins behinde his back and set thee among the living to praise him as thou dost this day That the fathers to the children might make known his Truth The Lord was ready to save thee that thou mightest sing the songs of praise to him in his house all the days of thy life Isai. 38.10 to the 20. I say were not all these most precious mercies Alas these are but small things for thee in the eyes of God he intendeth thee far greater things then these even such as these are scarce a taste of It was a choice mercy that God hath so notably answered thy prayers and that thou hast been so oft and so evidently a prevailer with him But O think then Are all these so sweet and precious that my life would have been a perpetual misery without them Hath his providence lifted me so high on Earth and his merciful kindness made me great How sweet then will the Glory of his presence be And how high will his eternal love exalt me And how great shall I be made in Communion with his greatness If my pilgrimage and warfare have such mercies what shall I finde in my home and in my Triumph If God will communicate so much to me while I remain a sinner what will he bestow when I am a perfect Saint If I have had so much in this strange Country at such a distance from him what shall I have in Heaven in his immediate presence where I shall ever stand about his Throne SECT X. 8. COmpare the comforts which thou shalt have above with those which thou hast here received in the Ordinances Hath not the written Word been to thee as an open fountain flowing with comforts day and night when thou hast been in trouble there thou hast met with refreshing when thy faith hath staggered it hath there been confirmed what suitable Scriptures hath the Spirit set before thee VVhat seasonable promises have come into thy minde so that thou maist say with David If thy Word had not been my delight I had perished in my trouble Think then If the VVord be so full of consolations what overflowing springs shall we finde in God if his letters are so comfortable what are the words that flow from his blessed lips and the beams that stream from his Glorious Face If Luther would not take all the world for one leaf of the Bible what would he take for the Joyes which it revealeth If the promise be so sweet what is the performance If the Testament of our Lord and our charter for the Kingdom be so comfortable what will be our possession of the Kingdom it self Think further what delights have I found also in this Word preached when I have sit under a heavenly heart-searching Teacher how hath my heart been warmed within me how hath he melted me and turned my bowels me thinks I have felt my self almost in Heaven me thinks I could have been content to have sate and heard from morning to night I could even have lived and dyed there How oft have I gone to the congregation troubled in spirit and returned home with quietness and delight How oft have I gone doubting concluding damnation against my own soul and God hath sent me home with my doubts resolved and satisfied me and perswaded me of his love in Christ How oft have I gone with darkness and doubtings in my Judgment and God hath opened to me such pretious truths and opened also my understanding to see them that his light hath been exceeding comfortable to my soul what Cordials have I met with in my saddest afflictions what preparatives to fortifie me for the next encounter Well then if Moses face do shine so gloriously what Glory