The Saint’s Everlasting Rest
by Richard Baxter
Paperback (No longer our product)
(March 2025)
ISBN: 9780718897819
Price: $34.00
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An abridged edition of the classic Christian devotional that was written by Richard Baxter in 1650.
This edition of The Saints’ Everlasting Rest brings the classic Christian devotional, written by Richard Baxter during a life-threatening illness, to the modern reader. His meditations on eternity, heaven, and honouring God have been an inspiration to Christians for centuries, bringing comfort and perspective to those following Christ. Combining Baxter’s unique voice and timeless practical counsel, this book offers readers an insight into the spirit and language of this prolific biblical teacher. Benjamin Fawcett’s abridgement was designed to be accessible to the modern reader, and preserves Baxter’s work so that his voice is illuminated, not impaired. As Christians have been throughout the centuries, readers will be comforted, challenged and inspired by this classic work.
Prefaces Plates Abbreviations Introductory Essay I The Text Explained II This Rest Defined III What This Rest Presupposeth IV What This Rest Containeth V The Four Great Preparatives to Our Rest VI This Rest Most Excellent, Discovered by Reason VII The Excellencies of Our Rest VIII The People of God Described IX The Certain Truth of This Rest Proved by Scripture X Reasons Why This Rest Remains, and Is Not Here Enjoyed XI Whether the Souls Departed Enjoy this Rest Before the Resurrection XII An Exhortation to Help Others to this Rest XIII Motives to a Heavenly Life XIV Containing Some Hindrances of a Heavenly Life XV Some General Helps to a Heavenly Life XVI Containing the Description of the Great Duty of Heavenly Contemplation XVII Concerning the Fittest Time and Place for this contemplation and the Preparation of the Heart Unto It XVIII Of Considerations as the Instrument to this Work
and What force it Hath to Move the Soul XIX What Affections Must Be Acted, and by What Considerations and Objects, and in What Order XX By What Actings of the Soul to Proceed in this Work of Heavenly Contemplation XXI Some Advantages and Help, for Raising and Affecting the Soul by this Meditation XXII How to Manage and Watch Over the Heart, Through the Whole Work XXIII The Abstract, or the Sum of All XXIV The Conclusion Appendix
Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was a Puritan theologian, church leader, hymn-writer, and poet. He ministered at Kidderminster, and was a prolific author and influential controversialist, called “the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen”.
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