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

The first part of Volume Nine includes Baxter’s treatises on conscience. The Reformation and its articulation of the doctrine of election left many Protestants worried about their eternal status. In The Right Method for a Settled Peace of Conscience and Spiritual Comfort, Baxter encourages his readers to build a strong faith by understanding the degree of God’s work, but he acknowledges that...

go cheerfully about the works of your calling, and follow it with diligence; and that time which you redeem for spiritual exercises, let it be most spent in thanksgiving, and praises, and heavenly conference. These things may do much for prevention, and abating your disease, if it be not gone too far; but if it be, you were best have recourse to the physician, and expect God’s blessing in the use of means; and you will find, when your body is once cured, the disquietness of your mind will vanish
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