Download or read book The Saints Everlasting Rest written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Baxter wrote "The Saints' Everlasting Rest" to help prepare him for death during a life-threatening illness. It has inspired Christians for centuries to lift their eyes above this world to the place where they will spend eternity. Born in 1615, Richard Baxter lived and ministered throughout most of the seventeenth century. After being forced from his pulpit with some two thousand other Puritan ministers in the Great Ejection of 1660, he continued his writing ministry, authoring more than 140 books. Originally published in 1649, this work was forty-six chapters long, covering 844 pages. It was abridged in 1758, condensing it to sixteen chapters. Reading Baxter's book will challenge you to rediscover the wonders of the Lord through reflection and meditation. Taking captive our thoughts and making them obedient to Christ will make us strong in the faith and bring victory to our spiritual walks.--

Download or read book The Saints Everlasting Rest written by Richard Baxter and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hopeful Puritan Perspective on Suffering and Death In the throes of a long illness and confronting the possibility of death, 17th-century theologian Richard Baxter found comfort in the reality of heaven that awaits believers of Christ. During his recovery, Baxter wrote about the afterlife in what would become his best-selling book. The Saints' Everlasting Rest meditates on what Scripture reveals about heaven, helping believers live an abundant, God-honoring life in anticipation of eternal rest. Baxter encourages readers not to become distracted or discouraged by the temporal as he refocuses their minds on the eternal. Confronting difficult topics including sin, suffering, and fear of death, he also emphasizes God's sufficient grace and how the promise of heaven enriches life on earth. Foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada: Inspiring message from the founder and CEO of the Joni and Friends International Disability Center Great for Personal and Group Study: Each chapter ends with questions for reflection, tackling issues including death, abundant joy, security in Christ, and patience through affliction Modernized Version of a Puritan Classic: Abridged and edited, with a detailed summary of Baxter's life and work, along with short introductions to each chapter Biblical Support for Dealing with Grief or Illness: Explains suffering and death from a Christ-centered perspective, with practical tips for living a heavenly life

Download or read book The Believers Eternal Rest written by John gillespie and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little thought is given these days to Heaven. What is given is often fanciful and fictitious. But the Bible has so much to say about the destiny of the Believer! In 1645, a pastor named Richard Baxter was told he had but six months to live. Alone and with nothing but his Bible, that faithful and godly man embarked upon a journey, seeking to discover all that he could about Heaven. While reprieved from death's pursuit for another thirty years, Richard's narrow escape produced a remarkable book: THE SAINTS' EVERLASTING REST. That book told the Bible's Truth about Jesus, the Gospel, and Heaven.John Gillespie has rewritten Richard Baxter's wonderful book for a new generation. THE BELIEVERS' ETERNAL REST is an interpretation, a paraphrase, of Baxter's original. The author has sought to be true to the original theology and spirit of Richard Baxter, while presenting his heart and discoveries in a new voice.In this book myths will be dispelled, truths will be discovered, and your heart for Jesus will be moved Heavenward.Welcome to a journey of more than a life-time. Welcome to a journey into Eternity.

Download or read book Walking With God written by Richard Baxter and published by Gideon House Books. This book was released on with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does walking with God truly mean? What does it look like in the life of an ordinary Christian? Puritan writer Richard Baxter provides an answer for us that is just as powerful and enlightening in our modern era as it was in the 17th century when he penned his words. Baxter, who himself was persecuted and spent time in prison for his beliefs, was intimately familiar with the great challenge of walking with God in a tumultuous world and in the midst of a generation that railed against God. Inscribed at the base of Baxter’s statue in Kidderminster, England are these words: “In a stormy and divided age he advocated unity and comprehension, pointing the way to ‘the eternal.’” Come learn from this great man of faith who walked with God.

Download or read book The Reformed Pastor written by Richard Baxter and published by Crossway Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his classic text The Reformed Pastor, Richard Baxter expounds on the apostle Paul's encouragement to the elders of Ephesus to keep watch over themselves and their flocks. Updated and abridged edition.

Download or read book The Practical Works of the Rev Richard Baxter written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Anonymous and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Little Book of Christian Mysticism written by Carl McColman and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 300 quotations, this book invites the reader to delve into the writings of the great contemplatives and mystics of the past two thousand years. The Little Book of Christian Mysticism provides a user-friendly, insightful, and potentially life-changing introduction to the essential teachings of the greatest mystics in the western wisdom traditions, past and present, including Francis of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Merton, Evelyn Underhill, Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and Julian of Norwich. Readers can use this book to initiate themselves into this visionary and ecstatic spiritual lineage, and they can also use it as a book of daily meditations. Small enough to fit in one's pocket or handbag, this is truly a user-friendly introduction to this venerable body of wisdom.

Download or read book Wicked Saints written by Emily A. Duncan and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller! A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself. A prince in danger must decide who to trust. A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war. In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light. Wicked Saints is the thrilling start to Emily A. Duncan’s devastatingly Gothic Something Dark and Holy trilogy. This edition uses deckle edges; the uneven paper edge is intentional.

Download or read book The Collects of Thomas Cranmer written by Church of England and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-14 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer.

Download or read book Against Jovinianus written by St. Jerome and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-12-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jovinianus, about whom little more is known than what is to be found in Jerome's treatise, published a Latin treatise outlining several opinions: That a virgin is no better, as such, than a wife in the sight of God. Abstinence from food is no better than a thankful partaking of food. A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. All sins are equal. There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state. In addition to this, he held the birth of Jesus Christ to have been by a "true parturition," and was thus refuting the orthodoxy of the time, according to which, the infant Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as his Resurrection body afterwards did, out of the tomb or through closed doors.

Download or read book The Saints Everlasting Rest Classic Reprint written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Saints' Everlasting Rest But fee how God over-ruleth and crofles our refolutions! Being in my quarters far from horrte, caft into extreme languifhing (by the fudden lofs of about a gallon of blood, after many years fore-going weaknefs) find having no acquaintance about me, nor any book lut my Bible, and living in continual expectation of death, I bent my thoughts on my Everlafting Reft: and becaufe my memory, through extreme weaknefs, v: as imperfect, I took my pen, and began to draw up my own Funeral Sermon, or feme helps for my own meditations of heaven, to fweeten both the reft of my life, and my death. In this condition God was pleafed to continue me about five months from home; where being able for nothing elfe 1 went on with this work, which lengthened to this which you here fee. It is no wonder therefore if I be too abrupt in the beginning, feeing 1 then intended but the length of a fermon or two. Much lefs may you wonder if the whole be very imperfect, feeing it was written as it were with one foot in the grave, by a man that was betwixt the living and dead, that wanted ftrength of nature to quicken invention or affection, and had no book but his Bible, while the chief part was finifticd. But Ohow fweet is this providence now to my review! which fo happily forced me to that work of meditation, which I had formerly found fo profitable to my foul! and mewed me more mercy in depriving me of other helps, than I was aware of! And hath caufed my thoughts to feed on this heavenly fubjecl, which hath more benefited me than all the ftudies of my life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Reformed Pastor written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Worldly Saints written by Leland Ryken and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ryken's Worldly Saints offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English and American contexts. The work is rich in quotations from Puritan worthies and is ideally suited to general readers who have not delved widely into Puritan literature. It will also be a source of information and inspiration to those who seek a clearer understanding of the Puritan roots of American Christianity." -Harry Stout, Yale University "...the typical Puritans were not wild men, fierce and freaky, religious fanatics and social extremists, but sober, conscientious, and cultured citizens, persons of principle, determined and disciplined excelling in the domestic virtues, and with no obvious shortcomings save a tendency to run to words when saying anything important, whether to God or to a man. At last the record has been put straight." -J.I. Packer, Regent College "Worldly Saints provides a revealing treasury of primary and secondary evidence for understanding the Puritans, who they were, what they believed, and how they acted. This is a book of value and interest for scholars and students, clergy and laity alike." -Roland Mushat Frye, University of Pennsylvania "A very persuasive...most interesting book...stuffed with quotations from Puritan sources, almost to the point of making it a mini-anthology." -Publishers Weekly "With Worldly Saints, Christians of all persuasions have a tool that provides ready access to the vast treasures of Puritan thought." -Christianity Today "Ryken writes with a vigor and enthusiasm that makes delightful reading-never a dull moment." -Fides et Historia "Worldly Saints provides a valuable picture of Puritan life and values. It should be useful for general readers as well as for students of history and literature." -Christianity and Literature

Download or read book Baxter A Holy Commonwealth written by Richard Baxter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First modern edition of a controversial seventeenth-century political and religious work.

Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

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