Excerpt from Imputative Righteousnes Truly Stated, According to the Tenour of the Gospel: Manifesting, in What Sence Sound Protestants Hold It, and in What Sence Libertines Pervert It
I conclude with this confeffion to the Reader, that though the matter ofthefe Papers hath been thought on thefe thirty years, yet the Script is hafi], and defe ctive in order and fulnefs; I could net have leifure fo much as to affix in the margin all the teats which fay whatl affert: And feve ral things, efpecially the {late of the Cafe, are oft repeated. But that is, left once read ing fuflice not to make them obferved and underflood; which if many times will do, I have my end. If any fay, that I {hould take time to do things more accurately, I tell him that I know my flraights of time, and quantity of bufinefs better than he doth; andi will rather be _defective in the mode of one work, than leave undone the fab fiance of another as great.
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He wrote 168 or so separate works -- such treatises as the Christian Directory, the Methodus Theologiae Christianae, and the Catholic Theology, might each have represented the life's work of an ordinary man. His Breviate of the Life of Mrs Margaret Baxter records the virtues of his wife, and reveals Baxter's tenderness of nature. Without doubt, however, his most famous and enduring contribution to Christian literature was a devotional work published in 1658 under the title Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live. This slim volume was credited with the conversion of thousands and formed one of the core extra-biblical texts of evangelicalism until at least the middle of the nineteenth century.
Richard Baxter was ordained into the Church of England, 1638, but in two years allied with Puritans opposed to the episcopacy of his church. At Kidderminster (1641-60) he made the church a model parish. The church was enlarged to hold the crowds. Pastoral counseling was as important as preaching, and his program for his parish was a pattern for many other ministers. Baxter played an ameliorative role during the English Civil Wars.
He was a chaplain in the parliamentary army but then helped to restore the king (1660). After the establishment of the monarchy, he fought for toleration of moderate dissent in the Church of England. Persecuted for more than 20 years and was imprisoned (1685) for 18 months, the Revolution of 1688, replacing James II with William and Mary, brought about an Act of Toleration that freed Baxter to express his opinions.
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