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CHA P. III..
The Excellencies of the Saints Reft.
3. It is peculiar to Saints.
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It is an Affociation with Saints and Angels. 40
5. It derives its Joys immediately from God himself. 42
6. It will be feafonable.
7. It will be fuitable.
8. It will be perfect, without Sin or Suffering; and
9. It will be everlasting.
CHA P. IV.
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The Character of the Perfons for whom this Reft is
defigned.
'Tis wonderful it should be defigned for Mortals,
1. The People of God, who shall enjoy it, are chofen
from Eternity.
2. They are given to Chrift.
3. They are born again.
4. They are deeply convinced of the Evil of Sin,
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their Mifery by Sin, the Vanity of the Creature, 59
and the All-fufficiency of Chrift,"
That the People of God fhall enjoy this Reft, and
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none but they, is further proved by Scripture; and 69.
that they shall not enjoy it till they come to ano-
ther World,
where their Souls fhall enjoy it while feparated
from their Bodies.
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CHAP. V.
The Mifery of those that lofe the Saints Reft.
The Reader, if unregenerate, urged to confider
this Lafs.
1. They lofe the perfonal Perfection of the Saints;
2. God himself;
3. All delightful Affections towards God;
4. The bleffed Society of Angels and glorified Spirits.
Their Lofs will be greatly aggravated, by having
1. Their Understanding cleared;
2. Alfo enlarged:
3. Their Confciences brought to a true and clofe Ap-
plication:
4. Their Affections more lively:
5. Their Memories Arengthened.
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The Mifery of thofe, who, befides lofing the Saints
Reft, lofe the Enjoyments of Time, and suffer the
Torments of Hell.
The Enjoyments of Time, which the Damned lofe,
1. Their prefumptuous Belief of their Intereft
God and Chrift:
2. All their Hopes:
3. All their Peace of Confcience:
4. All their carnal Mirth:
5. All their fenfual Delights.
The Torments of Hell, which the Damned fuffer,
1. The principal Author of them is God himself:
2. The Place or State of Torment:
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3. Thefe Torments are the Effects of divine Vengeance: 105
4. God will take Pleasure in executing them:
5. God's Executioners are Satan and Sinners them-
7. Without any Mitigation;
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The Sinner convinced of his Fody in venturing on Hell; 109
And intreated to fly for Safety to Chrift,
CHA P. VII.
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The Neceffity of diligently feeking the Saints Rest.
This Reft is furprizingly neglected, by the Worldly-
minded,
the prophane Multitude,
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formal Profeflors,
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and by the godly themselves,
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whether Magiftrates, Minifters,
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or People.
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The Author mourns the Neglect,
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and excites the Reader to Diligence by many
Confiderations.
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Awakening Questions propofed to the Ungodly,
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and alfo to the Godly.
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CHAP. VIII.
How to difcern our Title to the Saints Reft.
Men's Folly in not enquiring after a Title to it.
Their Caufe for Terror while deftitute of it.
Self Examination is urged;
1. From the Poffibility of arriving at Certainty:
2. From the Hinderances to Self-Examination by Satan, ib.
by wicked Men,
by our own Hearts;
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nor does Self Examination foon bring Affurance, 149
14 nor do all true Chriftians attain to it.
3. From confidering how eafy, common, and danger-
ous it is to be mistaken; that trying is fafer
than Neglect; that God will try us foon, and
to try ourselves will be profitable.
Directions are given how to try.
Marks for Trial; as, Do we make God our
chief Good?
Do we heartily accept of Chrift for Lord and Saviour?
The great Importance of thefe two Marks.
CHA P. IX.
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The Duty of the People of God to excite others to
feek this Rest.
This Duty is lamentably neglected:
1. It confifts in pitying the Mifery of Men's Souls'; 16
2. In giving religious Inftruction;
3. In promoting their Profit by publick Ordinances.
Why this Duty is fo much neglected.
Objections against it answered.
The Difcharge of it urged; efpecially,
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on Men of Knowledge, Learning, and Utterance,
on fuch as are acquainted with Sinners,
on Phyficians that attend dying Men,
on the Wealthy and Powerful, on Ministers,
and thofe that have Children or Servants.
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The Saints Reft is not to be expected on Earth.
The Sin and Folly of expecting Reft here, appears
By the Reasonableness of prefent Afflictions;
1. They are the Way to Reft;"
2. They keep us from miftaking it;
3. And from lofing our Way to it;
4. They quicken our Pace towards it;
5. They chiefly incommode our Flesh; and
6. Under them are often the beft Foretaftes of Reft: 195
By the Unreasonableness of refting in prefent Comforts; 197
1. 'Tis Idolatry;
2. It contradicts God's End in giving them;
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3. 'Tis the Way to have them refused, with- Page
drawn, or imbittered;
4. To be fuffered to do this, is the greateft Curfe; 199
5. 'Tis feeking Reft where it is not;
6. The Creatures, without God, would aggravate
our Mifery;
7. And all this is confirmed by Experience.
Aifo by the Unreasonableness of our Unwillingness
to die, and poffefs the Saints Reft.
CHAP. XI.
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The Importance of leading a heavenly Life upon
Earth.
'Tis reafonable to delight in thinking of Heaven.
Chriftians exhorted to it, by confidering,
1. It will evidence their fincere Piety;
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2. 'Tis the highest Excellence of the Chriftian Temper; 220
3. It leads to the most comfortable Life;
4. 'Tis the best Prefervative from 1emptations;
5. It will invigorate their Graces and Duties;
6. It will be their beft Cordial in Afflictions;
7. It will render them most useful to others;
8. It will honour God;
9. Without it, we difobey the Commands, and
lofe the most gracious and delightful Discoveries,
of the Word of God;
10. Our Hearts Jhould be with God, as His is fo
much on us; and
11. In Heaven, where we are so much interested;
12. Nothing but Heaven deferves our Hearts.
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Directions how to live a heavenly Life upon Earth.
I. Avoid the Hinderances to fuch a Life:
1. Live not in any known Sin;
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