The Character of a Sound Confirmed Christian as Also 2. of a Weak Christian, and 3. of a Seeming Christian / Written to Imprint Upon Mens Minds the True Idea or (Conception) of Godliness and Christianity by Richard Baxter (1669)

by Richard Baxter

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The character of a sound confirmed Christian as also 2. of a weak Christian, and 3. of a seeming Christian / written to imprint upon mens minds the true idea or (conception) of Godliness and Christianity by Richard BaxterThe character of a sound confirmed Christian as also 2. of a weak Christian, and 3. of a seeming Christian / written to imprint upon mens minds the true idea or (conception) of Godliness and Christianity by Richard Baxter
Directions for weak distempered Christians.
Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
Also published as part 2 of Directions for weak distempered Christians.
[20], 183 p.
London: Printed by R. White for Nevill Simmons, 1669.
Wing / B1217
English
Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library

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Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter was an English Puritan church leader, theologian and controversialist, called by Dean Stanley "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". After some false starts, he made his reputation by his ministry at Kidderminster, and at around the same time began a long and prolific career as theological writer. After the Restoration he refused preferment, while retaining a non-separatist presbyterian approach, and became one of the most influential leaders of the nonconformists, spending time in prison.

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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