At night I read some of the lives and characters of of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] concluded with reading Mr Baxters Saints. Rest and prayer as usual.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Clegg Print: Book
At night I read some of the lives and characters of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] concluded with reading Mr Baxters Saints. Rest and prayer as usual.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Clegg Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
... between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called _The Saints Everlasting Rest_, she was more throughly awakened, and brought to set her heart on God, and to seek salvation with her chiefest care: From that time forward she was a more constant, diligent, serious hearer of the ablest Ministers in London.
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Baker Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends in the opposite parlour have lent me another abridged work of Baxter's, edited by Benjamin Fawcett, & entitled "Converse with God in Solitude". The chapter on friends taken from us by Death is worthy to be written in letters of gold; the rest, I have not yet read: but hope to like'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book
'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends in the opposite parlour have lent me another abridged work of Baxter's, edited by Benjamin Fawcett, & entitled "Converse with God in Solitude". The chapter on friends taken from us by Death is worthy to be written in letters of gold; the rest, I have not yet read: but hope to like'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book
'October 19. I was reading the preface to Baxter's Rest, where he writes that we should mind our inheritance, and that because God tossed and tumbled us about in this world to make us weary of it. And this have I often experienced . . . '
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer Print: Book
'[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce leave of[f]; I read Mr Baxter's Rest about meditation, and was much affected with his way; I perused Bishop Hall's book, and that pleased mee; but I found diversions, and I could not fixe my thoughts long upon one subject . . . '
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer Print: Book
'I asked him what works of Richard Baxter's I should read. He said, "Read any of them; they are all good".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'Baxter's "Reasons of the Christian Religion", he thought contained the best collection of the evidences of the divinity of the Christian system.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the booksellers on the bridge, and which I must entreat you to procure me. They are called "Burton's Books"; the title of one is "Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England". I believe there are about five or six of them; they seem very proper to allure backward readers; be so kind as to get them for me, and send me them with the best printed edition of "Baxter's Call to the Unconverted".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'Have read Guilty Women by Richard Baxter. He calls Edda Mussolini the most dangerous woman
in Europe.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vere Hodgson Print: Book
'It was not strange in these circumstances
[suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic
fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the
religious literature of which we had a good deal
on our bookshelves — theology, sermons,
meditations for every day in the year, "The Whole
Duty of Man", "A Call to the Unconverted", and
many other old works of a similar character. Among
these I found one entitled, if I remember
rightly,"An Answer to the Infidel", and this work,
which I took up eagerly in the expectation that it
would allay those maddening doubts perpetually
arising in my mind [...] reading one of the
religious books entitled "The Saints Everlasting
Rest" in which the pious author, Richard Baxter
expatiates on and labours to make his readers
realize the condition of the eternally damned
[....]'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Book
'It was not strange in these circumstances
[suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic
fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the
religious literature of which we had a good deal
on our bookshelves — theology, sermons,
meditations for every day in the year, "The Whole
Duty of Man", "A Call to the Unconverted", and
many other old works of a similar character. Among
these I found one entitled, if I remember
rightly,"An Answer to the Infidel", and this work,
which I took up eagerly in the expectation that it
would allay those maddening doubts perpetually
arising in my mind [...] reading one of the
religious books entitled "The Saints Everlasting
Rest" in which the pious author, Richard Baxter
expatiates on and labours to make his readers
realize the condition of the eternally damned
[....]'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Book
