This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... CHRONOLOGICAL LIST or THE WORKS OF BAXTER. 1. Aphorisms of Justification, with their Explications. Wherein also is opened the Nature of the Covenants, Satisfaction, Righteousness, Faith, Works, &c. 1649. 12 mo. 2. The Saint's Everlasting Rest; or, a Treatise of the blessed State of the Saints in their enjoyment of God. 1649. 4to; 3. Plain Scripture Proof of Infants' Church-Membership and Baptism. 1650. 4to. 4. Animadversions on a Tract by Mr. Thos. Bedford. 1652. 4to. 5. A Friendly Accommodation of the Controversy with Mr; Bedford. 1652. 4to. 6. Tombs's Precursor, stayed and examined. 1652. 4to. 7. Letters between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombs, concerning their Dispute. 1652. 4to. 8. The right Method for Peace of Conscience and Spiritual Comfort, in thirty-two directions. 12mo. 1653. 9. Richard Baxter's Judgment about the Perseverance of Be lievers. 1653. 10. Christian Concord; or, the Agreement of the Associated Pastors and Churches of Worcestershire. 1653. 4to. 11. The Worcestershire Petition to Parliament. 1653. 4to. 12. The Petition Defended in Sixteen Queries, in a book in titled ' A Brief Discovery of the three-fold State of Antichrist.' 1653. 4to. 13. True Christianity; two Assize Sermons. 1654. 4to. 14. Richard Baxter's Apology; containing his Reasons of Dis sent from Mr. Blake, &c. 1654. 4to. 15.--Reduction of a Digressor in Reply to Kendal. 1654. 4to. 16. Admonition to Eyre. 1654. 4to. 17. Crandon Anatomised. 1654. 4to. 18.---Confutation of Lewis Molinaeus. 1654. 4 to. 19. Confession of Faith; especially concerning the Interest of Repentance and sincere Obedience to Christ in our Justification and Salvation. 1655. 4to. 20. humble Advice to the Members of Parlia liament; a Sermon preached in Westminster Abbey. 1655. 4to. 21. Making...
He wrote 168 or so separate works -- such treatises as the Christian Directory, the Methodus Theologiae Christianae, and the Catholic Theology, might each have represented the life's work of an ordinary man. His Breviate of the Life of Mrs Margaret Baxter records the virtues of his wife, and reveals Baxter's tenderness of nature. Without doubt, however, his most famous and enduring contribution to Christian literature was a devotional work published in 1658 under the title Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live. This slim volume was credited with the conversion of thousands and formed one of the core extra-biblical texts of evangelicalism until at least the middle of the nineteenth century.
Richard Baxter was ordained into the Church of England, 1638, but in two years allied with Puritans opposed to the episcopacy of his church. At Kidderminster (1641-60) he made the church a model parish. The church was enlarged to hold the crowds. Pastoral counseling was as important as preaching, and his program for his parish was a pattern for many other ministers. Baxter played an ameliorative role during the English Civil Wars.
He was a chaplain in the parliamentary army but then helped to restore the king (1660). After the establishment of the monarchy, he fought for toleration of moderate dissent in the Church of England. Persecuted for more than 20 years and was imprisoned (1685) for 18 months, the Revolution of 1688, replacing James II with William and Mary, brought about an Act of Toleration that freed Baxter to express his opinions.
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