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Richard Baxter
1615–1691
A tireless pastor, peacemaker, and prolific writer, he became one of the best-known voices of English Puritanism. His ministry at Kidderminster and books such as The Reformed Pastor and The Saints' Everlasting Rest gave him a lasting place in Protestant history.
5 Audiobooks
A Christian Directory, Part 1: Christian Ethics
by Richard Baxter
A Christian Directory, Part 2: Christian Economics
by Richard Baxter
A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics
by Richard Baxter
The Saint's Everlasting Rest A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven
by Richard Baxter
A Christian Directory, Part 4: Christian Politics
by Richard Baxter
About the author
Born in Rowton, Shropshire, in 1615, Richard Baxter became an English Nonconformist minister and theologian whose work shaped seventeenth-century Protestant life. He is especially remembered for his years in Kidderminster, where his preaching and pastoral care made him widely known, and for the sheer range of his writing.
Baxter lived through the upheavals of the English Civil War and later served as a chaplain to Parliamentary forces. Even so, he was often described as a moderate voice who tried to reconcile divided Protestants rather than deepen their conflicts. After the Restoration, his refusal to conform fully to the established church brought him trouble and periods of persecution.
His best-known books include The Saints' Everlasting Rest, A Call to the Unconverted, and The Reformed Pastor. Readers have long turned to him for earnest, practical writing about Christian faith, pastoral duty, repentance, and the inner life.