The Saints' Everlasting Rest: Updated and Abridged

The Saints' Everlasting Rest: Updated and Abridged

The Saints' Everlasting Rest: Updated and Abridged

The Saints' Everlasting Rest: Updated and Abridged

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Overview

The Saints’ Everlasting Rest meditates on what Scripture reveals about heaven, helping believers live an abundant, God-honoring life in anticipation of eternal rest.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781433578878
Publisher: Crossway
Publication date: 05/17/2022
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was an influential pastor, a leading English Puritan, a compelling communicator, and a prolific author. He wrote around 140 books on a wide range of subjects. He is best known for his two classic texts, The Saints’ Everlasting Rest (1650) and The Reformed Pastor (1656).

Tim Cooper (PhD, University of Canterbury) serves as professor of church history at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of John Owen, Richard Baxter, and the Formation of Nonconformity and an editor of the Oxford University Press scholarly edition of Baxter’s autobiography.

Joni Eareckson Tada is CEO of Joni and Friends, a global ministry that serves the practical and spiritual needs of people with disabilities. She is also an artist and the author of numerous bestselling books, including Joni; A Place of Healing; and When God Weeps. Joni and her husband, Ken, reside in Calabasas, California.

Table of Contents

Foreword Joni Eareckson Tada

Introduction 15

1 What This Rest Contains 33

2 The Four Corners of This Portico 43

3 The Excellent Properties of This Rest 53

4 What We Will Rest From 63

5 A Multitude of Reasons to Move You 73

6 Why Are We So Reluctant to Die? 85

7 The Heavenly Christian Is the Lively Christian 95

8 Dangerous Hindrances and Positive Helps 107

9 I Now Proceed to Direct You in the Work 119

10 How to Fire Your Heart by the Help of Your Head 129

11 The Most Difficult Part of the Work 139

12 Preaching to Oneself 149

Conclusion 159

Appendix: Book Outline 163

General Index 173

Scripture Index 179

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

The Saints’ Everlasting Rest is a classic treatise on a favorite Puritan topic: the glory of being with Christ forever. Richard Baxter not only teaches us about heaven in a manner that fans hope into flame, but he also teaches us how to meditate on heaven so that we can enjoy a foretaste of it already on earth. Tim Cooper has done us a great service in distilling Baxter’s one thousand–plus pages of seventeenth-century Puritan prolixity into a small and accessible book. May this burning coal ignite a fire in many hearts today!”
Joel R. Beeke, Chancellor and Professor of Homiletics and Systematic Theology, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

“‘Could you not watch with me one hour?’ Christ’s gentle correction applies to us as well when our spirit is willing but our flesh is too weak to meditate on heaven for one hour. But in this volume are corrective words from Richard Baxter that—though updated and abridged—retain their well-earned and long-standing approval. Taking us by the hand, Baxter draws us away from our egregious neglect of duty and leads us into the joy of thoughts that ring with faith, desires that ache for paradise, and disciplines that dispose us again toward the rest that Christ is preparing for us in our Father’s house.”
A. Craig Troxel, Professor of Practical Theology, Westminster Seminary California; author, With All Your Heart

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