A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 • SECTION 24

CHAP. XVI.

← The Saint's Everlasting Rest A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven

_Heavenly contemplation exemplified, and the whole work concluded._

A Christian prepared for the work, may contemplate, "The excellency of heavenly rest; 294 Its nearness dreadful to sinners, joyful to saints, 295 Its dear purchase; 296 And its difference from earth, ibid He may plead with his heart, 298 May banish unbelief, ibid And pity a careless world, 299 He may view heavenly rest as the object of love, ibid And of joy, 304 He may lament his heart's indisposition to such joy, ibid He may view heavenly rest, as the object of desire," 310 Evil consequences of neglecting such contemplation, 317 Saints excited to be constant in it, 318 The author's concluding prayer, 319

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