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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...

say, as the glutton at the feast, ‘Sure there is no other heaven but this:’ or if they do expect more by the Messiah, it is only the increase of their earthly felicity. The apostle bestows most of this epistle against this distemper; and clearly and largely proves unto them, that it is the end of all ceremonies and shadows to direct them to Jesus Christ, the Substance; and that the rest of Sabbathsb and Canaan should teach them to look for a further rest, which indeed is their happiness. My text
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