Excerpt from The Saints' Everlasting Rest, or a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory: In Four Parts, Wherein Is Showed Its Excellency and Certainty; The Misery of Those That Lose It; The Way to Attain It; Assurance of It; And How to Live in the Continual, Delightful Foretastes of It, by the Help of Meditation The treatise lengthened far beyond the author's original inten tion. Of the four parts in which it is comprised, he designed at the commencement only the first and last, - the last principally, being, from the nature Of its contents - directions for the getting and keeping of the heart in heaven - most adapted to sweeten the rest of his life and his death. It would have been a difficult matter for him, however, to compose a sermon, or to produce a work, in which he contemplated nothing more than to edify and console. T O convince and convert, to reprove gainsayers, and to rescue souls from the everlasting burnings, were the objects in the pur suit of which above all others he might be said to live, and move, and have his being. Accordingly he added the second part, to evince the certainty of the rest, and that the Scripture, upon whose promises the hope of it is grounded, is the perfect infallible word and law of God and the third, containing a number of most pungent appeals to the sinner to move from his death in trespasses and sins, and lay hold on the glorious hope, and to the people of God, to persuade hem to the great duty of helping to save their brethren's souls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.