The Saints' Everlasting Rest

Richard Baxter — from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

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Contents (19)

1. Prefatory Notice
2. The Saints’ Everlasting Rest
3. The introduction to the work, with some account of the nature of the Saints’ Rest
4. The great preparatives for the Saints’ Rest
5. The excellencies of the Saints’ Rest
6. The character of the persons for whom this Rest is designed
7. The great misery of those who lose the Saints’ Rest
8. The misery of those who, besides losing the Saints’ Rest, lose the enjoyments of time, and suffer the torments of hell
9. The necessity of diligently seeking the Saints’ Rest
10. How to discern our title to the Saints’ Rest
11. The duty of the people of God to excite others to seek this Rest
12. The Saints’ Rest is not to be expected on Earth
13. The importance of leading a Heavenly life upon Earth
14. Directions how to lead a Heavenly life upon Earth
15. The nature of Heavenly contemplation; with the time, place, and temper fittest for it
16. What use Heavenly contemplation makes of consideration, the affections, soliloquy, and prayer
17. Heavenly contemplation assisted by sensible objects, and guarded against a treacherous heart
18. Heavenly contemplation exemplified, and the whole work concoluded
19. Conclusion