What We Must Do to Be Saved
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ISBN13: 9780217656351
Paperback|9780217656351
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFATORY NOTE. HOPE to be able to complete in a goodly number of years hence a 'labour of love' on which I have been long occupied viz., a full and accurate enumeration of the Writings of the Puritans, earlier and later, and of the ' Ejected' of 1662?from a personal examination of their books and tractates themselves, not from Catalogues or other compilations. This, preparatory to an Introduction to the Theological Literature of our Country. I offer meanwhile the present ' Annotated List' of the numerous Works of Richard Baxter as a specimen of the Catalogue I propose to draw up. I venture to believe that it will be found accurate, and much more extensive than any extant. With the trifling exceptions noted in their places it has been my rare good fortune to have had access to the entire Writings of our Worthy in the original and early editions. Nearly all indeed, are contained in my own Library. In the Catalogue above promised (' if the Lord will') I intend adding (a) Those books to which Baxter prefixed ' Preface' or ' Epistle' (b) Manuscripts in Williams' Library and elsewhere?(c) Translations of his Writings (d) Books and tractates in controversy, or otherwise relating to him. (a) Will bring up the List to (it isbelieved) 200 distinct publications: and I may observe that many of his ' Prefaces' and ' Epistles' are really priceless 'Essays' and even treatises on the subject of which they treat. This is not the place to enter on an examination of the characteristics of the Writings recorded in this List. The great Dr Isaac Barrow long ago said of them? His practical writings were never mended, and his controversial ones seldom confuted Calamy 'Account' vol. i. p. 422]: Bishop Wilkins observed, He cultivated every subject he handled, and if he had lived in the prim...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217656351 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217656358 |
| Weight | 0.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 94 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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