The Saints' Everlasting Rest

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"The Saints' Everlasting Rest" — a Puritan classic of meditation

Text from Christian Classics Ethereal Library; in the public domain.

Contents

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