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

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Volume Twenty-Three concludes The Saint’s Everlasting Rest. Baxter addresses the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, and encourages his readers to compare expectations of life on earth with the promises of heaven. Fearing death leads to doubt and despair, but contemplating heaven brings comfort and rest.

of meditation by the common sense, the fantasy and estimation.t The fleshly man mindeth the things of the flesh. (Rom. 8.) If it were the work of the ear, or the eye, or the tongue, or the hands, which I am setting you on, I doubt not but you would more readily take it up; but it is the work of the soul, for bodily exercise doth here profit but little. The soul hath its labour and its ease; its business and its idleness; its intention and remission, as well as the body; and diligent students are

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