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The saints' everlasting rest

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Richard Baxter's The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650) has long been recognized as one of the great classics of Christian devotion, and it is by this book that he is best known. The original work consists of some eight hundred thousand words-a clear example of Baxter's prolific pen-yet in Baxter's own life-time it reached twelve editions! First abridged in 1754 by John Wesley, in the Christian Library, five years later another abridgement was made by Benjamin Fawcett, and innumerable reprints of this have since been issued. The book has also been translated into Welsh, Gaelic, German and French. The purpose of this abridgement, first published in 1962, was to present the work in a form suitable to the modern reader. No change has been made in the text of the passages selected from the original work, and the spirit and language of Baxter have been so preserved that the movement of his thought and style not only remains unimpaired but stands out even more clearly.

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445

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The saints' everlasting rest
1840, American Tract Society
in English
Cover of: The saint's everlasting rest
The saint's everlasting rest
1834, Pub. by B. Waugh and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal church
in English
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The saints' everlasting rest
1833, Perkins & Marvin, J. Leavitt; [etc., etc.]
in English
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The Saints' Everlasting Rest
1829, Fisher, Son and Jackson
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Cover of: The saints everlasting rest: or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory
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The saints everlasting rest ...
1653, Printed for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton
in English - 4th ed.
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1650, Printed by Rob White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton
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Table of Contents

Introductory essay / Thomas Erskine (Edinburgh, February, 1824)
Compiler's preface / B.F. ( Kidderminster, Dec. 25, 1758)
The introduction to the work, with some account of the nature of the Saints' Rest
The great preparativeness to the Saints' Rest
The excellencies of the Saints' Rest
The character of the persons for whom this Rest is designed
The misery of those who lost the Saints Rest
The misery of those, who, besides losing the Saints Rest, lost the enjoyments of time, and suffer the torments of hell
The necessity of diligently seeking the Saints Rest
How to discern our title to the Saints Rest
The duty of the people of God to excite others to seek this Rest
The Saints Rest is not to be expected on earth
The importance of leading a heavenly life upon earth
Directions how to lead a heavenly life upon earth
The nature of Heavenly Contemplation, with the time, place, and temper fittest for it
What use heavenly Contemplation makes of consideration, affections, soliloquy, and prayer
Heavenly Contemplation assisted by sensible objects, and guarded against a treacherous heart
Heavenly Contemplation exemplified, and the whole work concluded.

Edition Notes

Series
Evangelical family library -- v. 5, Evangelical family library -- v. 5.
Genre
Early works to 1800.
Other Titles
Baxter's Saints' rest

Classifications

Library of Congress
BV4831.B4 F3 1840

The Physical Object

Pagination
445 p. ;
Number of pages
445

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24140434M
Internet Archive
saintseverlasti05inbaxt
LCCN
34008401
OCLC/WorldCat
23919019

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