The Practical Works of Richard Baxter Volume 1 12+

📖 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. 1646--1660. Baxter resumes his Labours at Kidderminster--His account of Public Affairs till the Death of Charles I.--His conduct while in Kidderminster towards Parliament--Towards the Royal Party--His Ministry at Kidderminster--His Employments--His Success--His Advantages--Remarks on the style of his preaching--His public and private exertions--Their lasting effects. In the fourth chapter, a full account is given of the views and conduct of Baxter while he was connected with the victorious array of the Commonwealth. His exertions to promote its spiritual interests, were indefatigable and disinterested. With the most patriotic principles and aims, he devoted himself to counteract, what he considered the factious and sectarian dispositions of the soldiers and their leaders; while he experienced nothing but sorrow and disappointment as the fruit of his labours. His bodily health, always feeble andbroken, at length sunk under the pressure of his circumstances, and he was compelled reluctantly to retire from the stormy atmosphere of a camp to the calmer region of a pastoral cure. The preceding- chapter details the origin, character, and influence, of the principal and the minor religious parties which made a figure during the civil wars, or enjoye...