Publication

2003-04-01 - Kessinger Publishing

Language

English

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Word Count

81000 words, Guess

Page Count

324 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100766146677
  • ISBN-139780766146679
  • LibraryThing127814
  • OCLC Control Number469911747
  • Open LibraryOL8058997M

Description

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.

First Sentence

IT was not only our interest in God, and actual enjoyment of him, which was lost in Adam's fall, but all spiritual knowledge of him, and true disposition towards such a felicity.

Subjects

Topics

CielSaintsHeavenReligionPuritansPortraitsChristian

People

Benjamin Fawcett (1715-1780)

Other Editions

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