Description
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.
About the Author
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”.
Contents
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
