The saints everlasting rest: or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory. Wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty; the misery of those that lose it; the way to attain it, assurance of it; and how to live in the continual delightful fore-tasts of it, by the help of meditation.

Richard Baxter

London : Printed for Francis Tyton and Robert Boulter, 1677

[Puritan Theology, Nonconformist] 4to. Rebound in modern leather. New spine label.  [32], 284, [4], 285-404, 409-836, [4] p. Frontispiece illustration of the Saints Rest. Some marginal chipping, creases to frontispiece.  P. 316 has a marginal tear.  Title page has earlier signatures of Andrew Delah and Edmond Henry Casey, Rad. Moresby.  Refs: ESTC R2725. Wing, B1394.  

Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was an important Nonconformist pastor during the English Civil Wars and the Glorious Revolution. Baxter served as the chaplain in the parliamentary army. He was persecuted for his religious beliefs and spent 18 months in prison. Baxter's writing was extraordinarily prolific, he wrote more than 200 works. J. I. Packer notes that he was "the most voluminous English theologian of all time.   Baxter's writings had a significant role in establishing the underlying theology of the reformed church and is still actively read. He wrote near the end of his life that "the Gospel dieth not when I die: the church dieth not: the praises of God die not: the world dieth not: and perhaps it shall grow better...It may be that some of the seed that I have sown shall spring up to some benefit of the dark unpeaceable world when I am dead." - Richard Baxter, Moderate in an Age of Extremes, Christianity Today, 2019.