Excerpt from The Saints Everlasting Rest, or a Treatise on the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory Being iii my quarters far from home, call into extreme Ianguifhing, (by the fudden lofs of about a gallon of blood, after many years foregoing wealt nefs) and having no acquaintance about me, nor any book but my Bible, and living in continual ex peelatiem of death, I bent my thoughts on my Ever/(fling Rfi: and becaufe my memory, thro' extreme weaknefs, was imperfect, Itook my pen, and began to draw up my own funeral sermon, or fome Helps for my own meditations on heaven, to fweeten 'both the ref]: of m life and my death. In this condition God was pleafed to continue me about five months from home; where, being able for nothing elfe, I went 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 I then intended but the length of a fermon or two. Much. Lefs may you wonder if the whole be very imperfeet, feeing it was written as it were with one foot in the grave, by a man that was betwixt the living and the dead, who wanted firength of na ture to quicken invention or afi'eetion, and had no hook but his Bible, till the chief part' was finifh ed. But 0 how fweet is this providence now to my review! Which fo happily forced me to that work of meditation, whichi had formerly found fo profitable to my foul! And fhewed me more mercy in depriving me of other helps, than I was aware of And hath caufed my thoughts to feed on this hea venly fubjeet, which hath more benefitted me than all the Itudies of my life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.