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THE
SAINT'S
EVERLASTING
REST.
"THERE
REMAINETH THEREFORE
A
REST
'TO
THE
PEOPLE
.OF
GOD,"
Heb.
iv. 9.
CHAP.
I.
The
Introduction
to
the Work,
with
some
Account
bf
the
Nature
of
the
Saint's
Rest.
1.
The
important
design
of
the apostle
in
the text,
to which
the
author
earnestly
bespeaks
the attention
of the
reader.
2.
The
saint's
rest
defined, with
a
general
plan of
the
work.
§
3.
What
this rest presupposes.
§
4.
The
author's humble
sense
of
his inability fully to
shew
what this
rest
contains.
§
5.
It
contains
(1)
A
ceasing
from
means
of grace;
§
6.
(2)
A
perfect
freedom from all
evils;
§
7.
(3)
The
highest degree
of
the
saint's personal 'perfection, both
in
body and
soul
;
§
8
(4)
The
nearest enjoyment
of
God the
chief good;
§
9-14
(5)
A
sweet
and constant action
of
all
the
powers
of
soul
and
body
in
this enjoyment
of
God;
as,
fir
instance, bodily
sense,
knowledge,
memory,
love,
joy,
together
with a
mutual
love
and joy. §
15.
The
author's humble
reflection on
the
defi-
ciency
of
this account.
S
1.
IT
was
not
only our
interest
in
God, and actual
enjoyment
of
him,
which'
was
lost
in
Adam's
fall,
but
all
spiritual knowledge
of
him, and
true
dis-
position towards
such
a
felicity.
When
the
Son
of
God
comes
with recovering
grace,
and
discoveries
of
a
spiritual and eternal
happiness
and glory,
he
finds
not
faith in man to believe
it.
As the poor man
that
would
not- believe
any one had
such
a
sum
as
a
hundred
pounds,
it
was
so
far
above
what himself
possessed;
so
men will
hardly now believe
there
is
such
a
happiness
as
once
they
had,
much
less
as
Christ