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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

be to be Catechized but be ashamed that you had not learned soone● God forbid you should be so mad as to say I am now too old to learn Except you be too old to serve God and be saved how can you be too old to learn to be saved Why not rather I am too old to serve the Devil and the world I have tryed them too long to trust them any more What if your parents had not taught you any trade to live by or what if they had never taught you to speak would not you have set your selves to learn when you had come to age Remember that you have souls to care for as well as your children and therefore first begin with your selves 4. In the mean time while you are learn●ng your selves teach your children what do you know and what you cannot teach them your selves put them on to learn it of others that can perswade them into the company of the godly who will be glad to instruct them If French men or Welsh men lived in the Town among us that could not understand our language would they not converse with those that do understand it and would they not daily send their children to learn it by being in the company of those that speak it so do you that you may learn the heavenly language Get among those that use it and encourage your children to do so to Have you no godly neighbours that will be helpful to you herein O do not keep your selves strange to them but go among them and desire their help and be thankful to them that they will entertain you into their company God forbid you should be like those that Christ speakes of Luke 11.52 that would neither enter into the Kingdom of God themselves nor suffer those that would to enter God forbid you should be such cruel barbarous wretches as to hinder your children from being godly and to teach them to to be wicked And yet alas how many such are there swarming every where among us If God do but touch the hearts of their children or servants and cause them to heare and read the Word and call upon him and accompany with the godly who will sooner scorn them and revile them and discourage them then an ungodly parent What say they you will now be one of the holy brethren You will be wiser then your parents c. Just such as Pharaoh was to the Israelites such are these wicked wretches to their own children Exod. 5.3 8 9. When Moses said Let us go sacrif●ce to the Lord lest ●e fall upon us with pestilence or sword c Pharaoh answers They are idle therefore they say let us go sacrifice lay more work upon them c. Just so do these people say to their children You know Pharaoh was the representer of the divel and yet let me tell you These ungodly parents are far worse then Pharaoh For the children of Israel were many thousands and were to go three dayes journey out of the land but these men hinder their children from serving God at home Pharaoh was not their father but their King but these men are enemies to the children of their bodies Nay more let me te●l you I know none on earth that play the part of the divel himself more truly then these men And if any thing that walks in flesh may be called a divel I think it is a parent that thus hinderech his children from salvation I solemnly professe I do not speak one jot worse of these men then I do think and verily believe in my soul Nay take it how you will I will say thus much more I verily think that in this they are far worse then the divel God is a righteous Judg and will not make the Divel himself worse then he is I pray you ●e patient while you consider it and then judg your selves They are the parents of their children and so is not the divel Do you think then that it is as great a fault in him to seek their destruction as in them Is it as great a fault for the VVoolf to kill the Lambs as for their own dams to do it Is it so horrid a fault for an enemy in war to kill a childe Or for a bear or a mad dog to kill it as for the mother to dash i● b●ains against the wall You know it is not Do not you think then that it is so hateful a thing in Satan to entice your children to sin and hell and to discourage and disswade them from holiness and from heaven as it is in you You are bound to love them by nature more then Satan is O then what people are those that will teach their children in stead of holiness to curse and swear and raile and backbite to be proud and revengeful to break the Lords day and to despise his wayes to speak wantonly and filthily to scorn at holiness and glory in sin O when God shall ask these children Where learned you this language and practice and they shall say I learned it of my father or mother I would not be in the case of those parents for all the world Alas is it a work that 's worth the teaching to undo themselves for ever Or can they not without teaching learn it too easily of themselves Do you need to teach a Serpent to sting or a Lyon to be fierce Do you need to sow weeds in your garden will they not grow of themselves To build a house requires skill and teaching but a little may serve to set a town on fire To heal the wounded or the sick requireth skill but to make a man sick or to kill him requireth but little You may sooner teach your children to swear then to pray and to mock at godliness then to be true godly If these parents were sworn enemies to their children and should study seven yeers how to do them the greatest mischief they could not possibly finde out a surer way then by drawing them to sin and withdrawing them from God SECT XVI I Shall therefore conclude with this earnest request to all Christian parents that read these lines that they would have compassion on the souls of their poor children and be faithful to the great trust that God hath put on them O Sirs if you cannot do what you would do for them yet do what you can Both Church and State Cities and Countrey do groan under the neglect of this weighty duty your children know not God nor his Laws but take his name in vain and slieght his worship and you do neither instruct them nor correct them and therefore doth God correct both them and you You are so tender of them that God is the le●● tender both of them and you Wonder not if God make you smart for your childrens sins for you are guilty of all they commit by your neglect of doing your duty to reform them even as he that maketh a man drunk is

this in Heaven Our eyes shall then be filled no more nor our hearts pierced with such lights as at Worcester Edg-hil Newbury Nantwich Montgomery Horn Castle York Naseby Langport c. We shall then have the conquest without the calamity Mine eyes shall never more behold the Earth covered with the carkasses of the slain Our black Ribbands and mourning Attire will then be turned into the white Robes and Garments of gladness O how hardly can my heart now hold when I think of such and such and such a dear Christian Friend slain or departed O how glad must the same heart needs be when I see them all alive and glorified But a far greater grief it is to our Spirits to see the spiritual miseries of our Brethren To see such a one with whom we took sweet councel and who zealously joyned with us in Gods worship to be now fallen off to sensuality turned drunkard worldling or a persecutor of the Saints And these trying times have given us too large occasion for such sorrows To see our dearest and most intimate friends to be turned aside from the Truth of Christ and that either in or neer the Foundation and to be raging confident in the grossest Errors To see many neer us in the flesh continue their neglect of Christ and their souls and nothing will waken them out of their security To look an ungodly Father or Mother Brother or Sister in the face To look on a carnal Wife or Husband or Childe or Friend And to think how certainly they shall be in Hell for ever if they die in their present unregenerate estate O what continual dolors do all these sad sights and thoughts fill our hearts with from day to day And will it not be a blessed day when we shall rest from all these what Christian now is not in Pauls case and cannot speak in his Language 2 Cor. 11.28 29. Besides those things that are without that which cometh upon me daily the care of all the Churches Who is weak and I am not weak who is offended and I burn not What heart is not wounded to think on Germanies long desolations O the learned Universities The flourishing Churches there that now are left desolate Look on Englands four yeers blood a flourishing Land almost made ruined hear but the common voyce in most Cities Towns and Countreys through the Land and judg whether here be no cause of sorrow Especially look but to the sad effects and mens spirits grown more out of order when a most wonderful Reformation by such wonderful means might have been well expected And is not this cause of astonishing sorrows Look to Scotland look to Ireland look almost every where and tell me what you see Blessed that approaching day when our eyes shall behold no more such sights nor our ears hear any more such tidings How many hundred Pamphlets are Printed full of almost nothing but the common calamities So that its become a gainful trade to divulge the news of our Brethrens sufferings And the fears for the future that possessed our hearts were worse then all that we saw or suffered O the tidings that run from Edghil fight of York fight c. How many a face did they make pale and how many a heart did they astonish nay have not many died with the fears of that which if they had lived they had neither suffered nor seen It s said of Melancthon That the miseries of the Church made him almost neglect the death of his most beloved Children to think of the Gospel departing the Glory taken from Israel our Sun setting at Noon day poor souls left willingly dark and destitute and with great pains and hazard blowing out the Light that should guide them to salvation What sad thoughts must these be To think of Christ removing his Family taking away both worship and worshippers and to leave the Land to the rage of the merciless These were sad thoughts Who could then have taken the Harp in hand or sung the pleasant Songs of Zion But blessed be the Lord who hath frustrated our fears and who will hasten that rejoycing day when Sion shall be exalted above the Mountains and her Gates shall be open day and night and the glory of the Gentiles be brought into it and the Nation and Kingdom that will not serve her shall perish When the sons of them that afflicted her shall come bending unto her and all they that despised her shall bow themselves down at the soles of her feet and they shall call her The City of the Lord the Sion of the holy One of Israel When her people also shall be all Righteous even the Work of Gods hands the Branch of his planting who shall inherit the Land for ever that he may be glorified When that voice shall sound forth Rejoyce with Jerusalem and be glad with her all ye that love her Rejoyce for joy with her all ye that mourn for her That ye may suck and be satisfied with the brests of her consolation that ye may milk out and be delighted with the abundance of her glory Thus shall we Rest from our participation of our Brethrens sufferings SECT XVI 8. WE shall Rest also from all our own personal sufferings whether natural and ordinary or extraordinary from the afflicting hand of God And though this may seem a small thing to those that live in continual ease and abound in all kinde of prosperity yet me thinks to the daily afflicted soul it should make the fore-thoughts of Heaven delightful And I think we shall meet with few of the Saints but will say That this is their own case O the dying life that we now live As full of sufferings as of days and hours We are the Carkasses that all Calamities prey upon As various as they are each one will have a snatch at us and be sure to devour a morsel of our comforts When we bait our Bulls and Bears we do but represent our own condition whose lives are consumed under such assaults and spent in succession of fresh encounters All Creatures have an enmity against us ever since we made the Lord of all our enemy And though we are reconciled by the blood of the Covenant and the price is paid for our full deliverance yet our Redeemer sees it fit to leave this measure of misery upon us to make us know for what we are beholden and to minde us of what we would else forget to be serviceable to his wise and gracious designes and advantagious to our full and final Recovery He hath sent us as Lambs among Wolves and sure there is little Rest to be expected As all our Senses are the inlets of sin so are they become the inlets of our sorrow Grief creeps in at our eyes at our ears and almost every where It seiseth upon our head our hearts our flesh our Spirits and what part doth escape it Fears do devour us and

work too He hath paid all the price and left us none to pay yet he never intended his purchase should put us into absolute immediate personal title to glory in point of Law much less into immediate possession What title we may have from his own and his Fathers secret counsel is nothing to the Question He hath purchased the Crown to bestow only on Condition of beleeving denying all for him suffering with him persevering and overcoming He hath purchased Justification to bestow only on condition of our beleeving yea repenting and beleeving That the first Grace hath any such Condition I will not Affirm but all following mercies have Though 't is Christ that enableth also to perform the Condition It is not a Saviour offered but received also that must save It is not the blood of Christ shed only but applyed also that must fully deliver Nor is it applyed to the Justification or Salvation of a sleepy Soul Nor doth Christ carry us to heaven in a chair of security Where he will pardon he will make you pray Forgive us our trespasses and where he will give Righteousness he will give hungering and thirsting It is not through any imperfection in Christ that the Righteous are scarcely saved no nor that the wicked perish as they shall be convinced one day In the same sence as the prayer of the faithful if fervent availeth for outward mercies in the same sence it prevaileth for Salvation also For Christ hath purchased both And as Baptism is said to save us so other duties too Therefore say not It is not duty but Christ For it is Christ in a way of duty As duty cannot do it without Christ so Christ will not without duty But of this enough before And as this motion must be strong so constant or it will fall short of Rest. To begin in the Spirit and end in the flesh will not bring to the end of the Saints The certainty of the Saints perseverance doth not make admonition to constancy unuseful Men as seemingly holy as the best of us have fallen off He that knew it unpossible in the foundation to deceive the Elect yet saw it necessary to warn us that he only that endureth to the end shall be saved Read but the promises Rev. 2. 3. to him that overcometh SECT XI 11. THere is presupposed also to the obtaining of this Rest a strong desire after it The Souls motion is not that which we call violent or constrained none can force it but natural viz. according to our new nature As every thing inclines to its proper Center so the Rational Creature is carryed on in all its motion with desires after its end This end is the first thing intended and chiefest desired though last obtained Observe it and beleeve it who ever thou art there was never Soul that made Christ and glory the principal end nor that obtained Rest with God whose desire was not set upon him and that above all things else in the world whatsoever Christ brings the heart to heaven first and then the person His own mouth spoke it Where your treasure is there will your heart be also Mat. 6.21 A sad conclusion to thousands of professed Christians He that had truly rather have the enjoyment of God in Christ then any thing in the world shall have it and he that had rather have any thing else shall not have this except God change him It 's true the Remainder of our old nature will much weaken and interrupt these desires but never overcome them SECT XII 12. LAstly here is presupposed painfulness and weariness in our motion This ariseth not from any evil in the work or way for Christs yoke is easie his burden light and his commands not grievous But 1. From the opposition we meet with 2. The contrary principles still remaining in our nature which will make us cry out O wretched men Rom. 7.24 3. The weakness of our graces and so of our motion Great labour where there is a suitable strength is a pleasure but to the weak how painful With what panting and weariness doth a feeble man ascend that hill which the sound man runs up with ease We are all even the best but feeble An easie dull profession of Religion that never encountereth with these difficulties and pains is a sad sign of an unsound heart Christ indeed hath freed us from the Impossibilities of the Covenant of Works and from the burden and yoke of Legal Ceremonies but not from the difficulties and pains of Gospel duties 4. Our continued distance from the End will raise some grief also for desire and hope implying the absence of the thing desired and hoped for do ever imply also some grief for that absence which all vanish when we come to possession All these twelve things are implyed in a Christians Motion and so presupposed to his Rest. CHAP. IV. What this Rest containeth SECT I. BUt all this is onely the outward Court or at least not the holiest of all Now we have ascended these steps may we look within the vail May we shew what this Rest containeth as well as what it presupposeth But alass how little know I of that whereof I am about to speak Shall I speak before I know But if I stay till I clearly know I shall not come again to speak That glimpse which Paul saw contained that which could not or must not be uttered or both And if Paul had had a tongue to have uttered it it would have done no good except his hearers had ears to hear it If Paul had spoke the things of Heaven in the language of Heaven and none understood that language what the better Therefore I 'l speak while I may that little very little which I do know of it rather then be wholy silent The Lord reveal it to me that I may reveal it to you and the Lord open some light and shew both you and me his Inheritance Not as to Balaam onely whose eyes the vision of God opened to see the goodliness of Jacobs tents and Israels tabernacles where he had no portion but from whence must come his own destruction Nor as to Moses who had onely a discovery in stead of possession and saw the Land which he never entered But as the pearl was revealed to the Merchant in the Gospel who rested not till he had sold all he had and bought it and as Heaven was opened to blessed Stephen which he was shortly to enter and the glory shewed him which should be his own possession SECT I. THere is Contained in this Rest. 1. A Cessation from Motion or Action not of all action but of that which hath the nature of a Means and implies the absence of the End When we have obtained the Haven we have done sailing When the workman hath his wages it is implyed he hath done his work When we are at our journeys end we have done

The delight which a pair of special faithful friends do finde in loving and enjoying one another is a most pleasing sweet delight It seemed to the Philosophers to be above the delights of Natural or Matrimonial friendship and I think it seemed so to David himself so he concludes his Lamentation for him I am distressed for thee my brother Jonathan very pleasant hast thou been unto me thy love to me was wonderful passing the love of women 2 Sam. 1.26 Yea the soul of Jonathan did cleave to David Even Christ himself as it seemeth had some of this kinde of love for he had one Disciple whom he especially loved and who was wont to lean on his brest why think then if the delights of close and cordial friendship be so great what delight shall we have in the friendship of the most High and in our mutual amity with Jesus Christ and in the dearest love and consort with the Saints Surely this will be a closer and stricter friendship then ever was betwixt any friends on earth and these will be more lovely and desirable friends than any that ever the Sun beheld and both our affections to our Father and our Saviour but especially his affection to us will be such as here we never knew as Spirits are so far more powerful then Flesh that one Angel can destroy an Host so also are their affections more strong and powerful we shall then love a thousand times more strongly and sweetly then now we can and as all the Attributes and Works of God are incomprehensible so is the attribute and work of Love He will love us many thousand times more then we even at the perfectest are able to love him what joy then will there be in this mutuall Love SECT VII 5. COmpare also the Excellencies of heaven with those glorious works of the Creation which our eyes do now behold What a deal of wisdom and power and goodness appeareth in and through them to a wise Observer What a deal of the Majesty of the great Creator doth shine in the face of this fabrick of the world surely his Works are great and admirable sought out of them that have pleasure therein This makes the study of natural Philosophy so pleasant because the Works of God are so excellent VVhat rare workmanship is in the body of a man yea in the body of every beast which makes the Anatomical studies so delightful what excellency in every Plant we see in the beauty of Flowers in the nature diversity and use of Herbs in Fruits in Roots in Minerals and what not But especially if we look to the greater works if we consider the whole body of this earth and its creatures and inhabitants the Ocean of waters with its motions and dimensions the variation of the Seasons and of the face of the earth the entercourse of Spring and Fall of Summer and Winter what wonderful excellency do these contain Why think then in thy Meditations if these things which are but servants to sinful man are yet so full of mysterious worth what then is that place where God himself doth dwell and is prepared for the just who are perfected with Christ VVhen thou walkest forth in the Evening look upon the Stars how they glissen and in what numbers they bespangle the Firmament If in the day time look up to the glorious Sun view the wide expanded encompassing heavens and say to thy self what glory is in the least of yonder Stars what a vast what a bright resplendent body hath yonder Moon and every Planet O what an unconceiveable glory hath the Sun Why all this is nothing to the glory of Heaven yonder Sun must there be laid aside as useless for it would not be seen for the brightness of God I shall live above all yonder glory yonder is but darkness to the lustre of my Fathers House I shall be as glorious as that Sun my self yonder is but as the wall of the Pallace-yard as the Poet ●aith If in Heavens outward Court such beauty be What is the glory which the Saints do see So think of the rest of the Creatures This whole earth is but my Fathers footstool this Thunder is nothing to his dreadful voice these winds are nothing to the breath of his mouth So much wisdom and power as appeareth in all these so much and far much more greatness and goodness and loving delights shall I enjoy in the actual fruition of God Surely if the Rain which rains and the Sun which shines on the just and unjust be so wonderful the Sun then which must shine on none but Saints and Angels must needs be wonderful and ravishing in glory SECT VIII 6. COmpare the things which thou shalt enjoy above with the excellency of those admirable works of Providence which God doth exercise in the Church and in the World What glorious things hath the Lord wrought and yet we shall see more glorious then these Would it not be an astonishing sight to see the Sea stand as a Wall on the right hand and on the left and the dry Land appear in the midst and the people of Israel pass safely through and Pharoah and his people swallowed up what if we should see but such a sight now If we had seen the ten Plagues of Egypt or had seen the Rock to gush forth streams or had seen Manna or Quails rained down from Heaven or had seen the Earth open and swallow up the wicked or had seen their Armies slain with Hailstones with an Angel or by one another Would not all these have been wondrous glorious sights But we shall see far greater things then these And as our sights shall be more wonderful so also they shall be more sweet There shall be no blood nor wrath intermingled we shall not then cry out as David Who can stand before this Holy Lord God Would it not have been an astonishing sight to have seen the Sun stand still in the Firmament or to have seen Ahaz Dyal go ten degrees backward Why we shall see when there shall be no Sun to shine at all we shall behold for ever a Sun of more incomparable brightness Were it not a brave life if we might still live among wonders and miracles and all for us and not against us if we could have drought or rain at our prayers as Elias or if we could call down fire from Heaven to destroy our enemies or raise the dead to life as Elisha or cure the diseased and speak strange languages as the Apostles Alas these are nothing to the wonders which we shall see and possess with God! and all those wonders of Goodness and Love We shall possess that Pearl and Power it self through whose vertue all these works were done we shall our selves be the subjects of more wonderful mercies then any of these Jonas was raised but from a three days burial from the belly of the Whale in the deep Ocean but