The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: Volume XXII (Biblia.com)

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Two of the defining features of Christianity are rest in God and comfort in God’s presence. As one of Baxter’s greatest works—popularized by John Wesley—The Saint’s Everlasting Rest instructs Christians to find rest and comfort in God alone. The final part of Volume Twenty-Two tackles doubt, and encourages Christians toward diligence. Baxter offers a depiction of heaven as the ultimate end of...

. SECT. 1. It was not only our interest in God, and actual fruition of him, which was lost in Adam’s covenant-breaking fall, but all spiritual knowledge of him, and true disposition towards such a felicity. Man hath now a heart too suitable to his estate: a low state, and a low spirit. And (as some expound that of Luke 18:8) when the Son of God comes with recovering grace, and discoveries and

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