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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...

commonly we do! Thus do we kill our comforts, and then complain for want of them. How should you have any life or constancy of consolations, that are so seldom, so slight, so unbelieving, and so heartless in your thoughts of heaven! You know what a folly it is to expect any peace, which shall not come from Christ as the fountain. And you must learn as well to understand what a folly it is to expect any solid joys, or stable peace, which is not fetched from heaven, as from the end. O that Christians
Pages 12–13