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

Volume Seventeen includes Baxter’s work on hypocrisy. He attempts to explain the widespread commonality of hypocrisy, contrasted with the marks of grace. He also addresses specific issues pertinent to his own church and the relevant controversies in his own ministry. Volume Seventeen concludes with a collection of sermons on diverse topics, including Proverbs, Ezekiel, the Gospels, and several...

———————— Question.—What are the best preservatives against melancholy and overmuch sorrow? ———————— Lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow? THE brevity of a sermon not allowing me time for any unnecessary work, I shall not stay to open the context, nor to inquire whether the person here spoken of be the same that is condemned for incest in 1 Cor. 5, or some other, nor whether Chrysostom had
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