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The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: Volume III is unavailable, but you can change that!

Perhaps one of the must universal human experiences is found in the stark realization that each one of us will die. How we confront the reality of death is deeply informed by our worldview and belief system; Christianity has much to say about death. Volume Three of The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter contains Baxter’s writings on death. The Last Work of a Believer is derived from a...

Humility is, which is its contrary. II. Some seemings or appearances like pride, which may make men be censured as proud, for that which is not pride. III. The Counterfeits of Humility, which may make a proud man seem to himself or others to be humble. I. Pride, is an inordinate self-exalting; or a lifting up of ourselves above the state or degree appointed us. It is called ‘ὑπερηφανία,’ because it is an appearing to ourselves, and a desire to appear to others above what we are, or above others
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