Richard Baxter, The Saints Everlasting Rest

Alison Searle (University of Leeds)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1651

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Essays/ Lectures (any)

Resources

Save to Bookshelf

In his autobiography Richard Baxter observes:

Whilst I was in Health I had not the least thought of writing Books; or of serving God in any more publick way than Preaching: But when I was weakened with great bleeding, and left solitary in my Chamber at Sir John Cook's in Derbyshire, without any Acquaintance, but my Servant, about me, and was sentenced to Death by the Physicians, I began to contemplate more seriously on the Everlasting Rest which I apprehended my self to be just on the Borders of (Reliquiae Baxterianae, Part I, 108).

John Cook'

s in

Derbyshire,

without any…

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

924 words

Citation: Searle, Alison . "The Saints Everlasting Rest". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 October 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7638, accessed 26 November 2024.]

Richard Baxter, The Saints Everlasting Rest

Dates

Places

Genres and Modes

Resources

Save this article

Leave Feedback