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...

Definition. Rest is the end and perfection of motion. The saint’s rest, here in question, is the most happy estate of a Christian, having obtained the end of his course: or, it is the perfect, endless fruition of God, by the perfected saints, according to the measure of their capacity, to which their souls arrive at death; and both soul and body must fully, after the resurrection and final judgment. Sect 2. I. I call it the estate of a Christian, though perfection consists in action, as the philosopher

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