Reliquiae Baxterianae Or Mr Richard Baxters Narrative Of The Most Memorable Passages Of His Life And Times Classic Reprint

Download or read book Reliquiae Baxterianae, Or Mr. Richard Baxter's Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of His Life and Times (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Baxter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reliquiae Baxterianae, or Mr. Richard Baxter's Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of His Life and Times You have here the Hiliory of his Minillerial Self. God fet upon his Soul, asone' refolv'd to q'ualifie and anoint it in no ordinary manner, for that Sacred Function, whereunto after many Temptations and Attempts to fix him in fome Other Stati-f on and Employment, both from others and himlelf) by the Call and Conduct of his heavenly Mailer, he applied and kept himfelf at lafl. God throughly made him li'rll to know the Soul which he had breathed into him, as to its Faculties, Capaci tics, Worth and Ufefulnels. God made him feel and mind that Body wherein this Soul of his was lodged; and wherein and how far his better Part might be helped or hinder'tl thereby: and the two Worlds whereto borh Soul and Body were 'rela ted and wherewith they were varioufly concerned. And in this World God fix'd him in fuch a Profpe& of another, as made him intimately and lharply feel bot'h what, and where, amidli what Circuml'tances, and to what purpofes be here a bode in painful, exercifed and declining Flelh. And all this gave him great Advantages and Inducements to deal more clol'ely, skilfully, diligently, and conllantly, and im portunately with Souls, about their great Concerns. And what a Tranlcript God made him of what the Apollle fpeaks asto himlelfand sotby, in Cal. 29. The following Hillory of his Kit/derminjier (and other) Labours and Succeifes in the Gofpel, will convince you to great Satisfatftion: as allo of What Oppolitions and Deliverances and Prelervations he met with there. 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.