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Volume Twenty-Three concludes The Saint’s Everlasting Rest. Baxter addresses the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, and encourages his readers to compare expectations of life on earth with the promises of heaven. Fearing death leads to doubt and despair, but contemplating heaven brings comfort and rest.

had rather go many miles to hear a powerful sermon of Christ and heaven, than to enter and possess it; Oh! what vile idolatry is this! When we dispute against epicures, academics, and all pagans, how earnestly do we contend that God is the chief good, and the fruition of him our chief happiness! What clear arguments do we bring to evince it! But do we believe ourselves; or are we Christians in judgment, and pagans in affection? Or do we give our senses leave to be the choosers of our happiness, while
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