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

Volume Thirteen contains five shorter theological treatises. Baxter devotes significant attention to the doctrine of God by articulating God’s essence, unity, indivisibility, omnipresence, and eternity. He also connects the immutable and transcendent understanding of God with the immediacy of God’s Spirit and the sources of knowledge through which God reveals himself. Baxter also laments atheism...

it is God that is in all, and above all, and beyond all, and beneath all; and where there is no place, because no creature, there is God: and if thy thoughts should imagine millions of millions of miles beyond all place and measure, all is but God; and go as far as thou canst in thy thoughts and thou canst not go beyond him. Reverently admire the immensity of God. The world and all the creatures in it, are not to God so much as a sand or atom is to all the world. The point of a needle is more to
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