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Richard Baxter

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English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer

Born 1615
Died 1691

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  • Cover of: The saint's everlasting rest: or, A treatise on the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven. Also, A call to the unconverted ... To which are added, A serious address to penitents
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  • Cover of: A call to the unconverted: to turn and live; and accept of mercy, while mercy may be had; as ever they will find mercy, in the day of their extremity, from the living God
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  • Cover of: The reformed pastor: shewing the nature of the pastoral work
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  • Cover of: A key for Catholicks, to open the jugling of the Jesuits, and satisfie all that are but truly willing to understand, whether the cause of the Roman or Reformed Church be of God ...
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    Cover of edition keyforcatholicks00baxt Cover of edition keyforcatholicks00baxt First published in 1659 — 14 editions
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  • Cover of: Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated: including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the reformation ...

    First published in 1680 — 12 editions
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  • Cover of: Poetical fragments.
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    First published in 1681 — 11 editions
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  • Cover of: poor man's family book.: 1. Teaching him how to become a true Christian. 2. How to live as a Christian ... 3. How to die as a Christian in hope and comfort ... With a form of exhortation to the sick, two catechisms, a profession of Christianity, forms of prayer for various uses, and some psalms and hymns for the Lords Day ...

    First published in 1674 — 11 editions
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  • Cover of: Now or never: a practical discourse on Eccles. ix. 10

    First published in 1662 — 10 editions
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  • Cover of: A call to the unconverted

    First published in 1717 — 10 editions
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  • Cover of: The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being dividers or troublers of the church: with some directions to the pastors how to deal with such Christians

    First published in 1670 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: The autobiography of Richard Baxter.
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    First published in 1925 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: The saints everlasting rest

    First published in 1790 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Plain Scripture proof of infants church-membership and baptism: being the arguments prepared for (and partly managed in) the publick dispute with Mr. Tombes at Bewdley on the first day of Jan. 1649 ...
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    First published in 1651 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Reliquiae Baxterianae: or, Mr. Richard Baxter's narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times. Faithfully publish'd from his own original manuscript

    First published in 1696 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion: for prevention of that deceit and damnation of souls and of those scandals, heresies, and desperate apostasies, that are the consequents of a counterfeit or superficial change

    First published in 1658 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: A paraphrase on the New Testament: with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and brevity fitted to the use of religious families ... and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers ... with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations

    First published in 1685 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: treatise of conversion: Preached, and now published for the use of those that are strangers to a true conversion ...

    First published in 1657 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: A Saint Or a Brute.: The Certain Necessity and Excellency of Holiness, &c ...
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    First published in 1662 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Compassionate warning and advice to all, especially to young persons.: Being the gift of the author
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    First published in 1708 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: The practical works of Richard Baxter: with a preface, giving some account of the author, and of this edition of his practical works : an essay on his genius, works, and times : and a portrait.
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    First published in 1981 — 4 editions
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English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer

Born 1615
Died 1691

Subjects

Early works to 1800, Christian life, Puritans, Religious Dissenters, Controversial literature, Church of England, Conversion, Catholic Church, Devotional literature, Sermons, Bible, Justification (Christian theology), English Sermons, Christian union, Church polity, Pastoral theology, Salvation, Future life, Christianity, History, Clergy, Faith, Doctrinal Theology, Infant baptism, Protestant authors

Places

England, Great Britain, New England

People

Richard Baxter (1615-1691), Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), John Tombes (1603?-1676), Edward Bagshaw (1629-1671), John Owen (1616-1683), Henry Maurice (1648-1691), Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680), Henry Danvers (d. 1687), Henry Dodwell (1641-1711), Margaret Charlton Baxter (1636-1681), Christopher Cartwright (1602-1658), Edward Herbert Herbert of Cherbury Baron (1583-1648), Elizabeth Baker (1634-1659), Francis Fullwood (d. 1693), Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), Jesus Christ, T. Tully (1620-1676), Thomas Blake (1597?-1657), William Hutchinson (fl. 1676-1679), David Clarkson (1622-1686), Edward Fowler (1632-1714), Edward Hutchinson (active 17th century), Edward Stillingfleet, Edward Wettenhall (1636-1713), George Kendall (1610-1663)

Time

17th century, Early works to 1800, 1649-1660, 1603-1714, Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660, Early modern, 1500-1700, Early works to 1900

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Alternative names

  • Rev. Richard Baxter
  • Richard 1615-1691 Baxter
  • Richard 1615-1691 Roman Tra Baxter
  • Richard 1615-1691 Grand Que Baxter
  • Richard 1615-1691 Nature an Baxter
  • Richard 1615-1691 of the Na Baxter
  • Richard 1615-1691 Answer to Baxter
  • Richard 1615-1691 N. 50005510 Baxter

History

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September 24, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
June 7, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Removed period from death date
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import