The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or a Treatise on the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory (Classic Reprint)

But fee how God over-ruleth and crofles our refolutions !B eing in my quarters far from horrte, caft into extreme languifhing (by the fudden lofs of about a gallon of blood, after many years fore-going weaknefs) find having no acquaintance about me, nor any book lut my Bible, and living in continual expectation of death, I bent my thoughts on my Everlafting Reft: and becaufe my memory, through extreme weaknefs, v:as imperfect, I took my pen, and began to draw up my own Funeral Sermon, or feme helps for my own meditations of heaven, to fweeten both the reft of my life, and my death. In this condition God was pleafed to continue me about five months from home ;where being able for nothing elfe 1went on with this work, which lengthened to this which you here fee. It is no wonder therefore if I be too abrupt in the beginning, feeing 1then intended but the length of a fermon or two. Much lefs may you wonder if the whole be very imperfect, feeing it was written as it were with one foot in the grave, by a man that was betwixt the living and dead, that wanted ftrength of nature to quicken invention or affection, and had no book but his Bible, while the chief part was finifticd. But Ohow fweet is this providence now to my review! which fo happily forced me to that work of meditation, which I had formerly found fo profitable to my foul! and mewed me more mercy in depriving me of other helps, than I was aware of! And hath caufed my thoughts to feed on this heavenly fubjecl, which hath more benefited me than all the ftudies of my life.
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