What this rest presupposes…. 5. It contains, (1.) A ceasing from means of grace ; 6. (2.) A perfect freedom from all evils ; 7. (3.) The highest degree of the saints’ personal perfection, both in body and soul ; 8. (4.) The nearest enjoyment of God the Chief Good; 9-14. (5.) A sweet and constant action of all the powers of soul and body in this enjoyment of God ; as, for instance, bodily senses, knowledge, memory, love, joy, together with a mutual love and joy.
—The Saints Everlasting Rest (1652)
"If the body shall be less employed, oh, how shall the soul be taken up?"
Baxter is talking about perpetual worship without physical preoccupations in Heaven, but I see I get a taste of that with cerebral palsy on Earth. What I can't do physically doesn't distract from worship. pic.twitter.com/gj7Gz1lQtj
— Brian Campbell Eshleman (@brian_esh73) December 3, 2022