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

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...

and with the other eye, our lost, recovered souls, and transcendent glory, these views will eternally pierce us, and warm our very souls. And those eyes, through which folly and lust have so often stolen into our hearts, shall now be the casements to let in the love of our dearest Lord for ever. Now, though we should, as some do, travel to Jerusalem, and view the Mount of Olives, where he prayed and wept, and see that dolorous way by which he bare his cross, and entered the temple of the holy grave;
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