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A Holy Commonwealth was written in 1659 by the Puritan minister
Richard Baxter (1615-91), and proved to be the most controversial
of all his works. He publicly repudiated it in 1670, and in 1683
the Oxford University authorities ordered it to be part of a
book-burning that included the works of Hobbes and Milton. The
scandal that surrounded it has obscured its merits as the most
candid of confessions as to why a conservative Puritan fought for
Parliament in the Civil War and gave his support to the Cromwells.
The views it expresses are at variance with the cautious
explanations given in Baxter's later memoirs (now seen as a less
reliable source than past commentators have presumed). This edition
of A Holy Commonwealth makes available to modern readers a work
which offers a unique perspective on the relation between church
and magistrate and the origins of the English Civil War.
A Holy Commonwealth was written in 1659 by the Puritan minister
Richard Baxter (1615-91), and proved to be the most controversial
of all his works. He publicly repudiated it in 1670, and in 1683
the Oxford University authorities ordered it to be part of a
book-burning that included the works of Hobbes and Milton. The
scandal that surrounded it has obscured its merits as the most
candid of confessions as to why a conservative Puritan fought for
Parliament in the Civil War and gave his support to the Cromwells.
The views it expresses are at variance with the cautious
explanations given in Baxter's later memoirs (now seen as a less
reliable source than past commentators have presumed). This edition
of A Holy Commonwealth makes available to modern readers a work
which offers a unique perspective on the relation between church
and magistrate and the origins of the English Civil War.
In his classic text The Reformed Pastor, Richard Baxter expounds on
the apostle Paul's encouragement to the elders of Ephesus to keep
watch over themselves and their flocks. Updated and abridged
edition.
The Saints' Everlasting Rest meditates on what Scripture reveals
about heaven, helping believers live an abundant, God-honoring life
in anticipation of eternal rest.
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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