Wenn dir Die ewige Ruhe der Heiligen, oder, eine Beschreibung des glückseligen Zustandes der Heiligen in der Gemeinschafft mit Gott nach diesem Leben ... gefällt

Richard Baxter's The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650) has long been recognized as one of the great classics of Christian devotion, and it is by this book that he is best known. The original work consists of some eight hundred thousand words-a clear example of Baxter's prolific pen-yet in Baxter's own life-time it reached twelve editions! First abridged in 1754 by John Wesley, in the Christian Library, five years later…