Baxter, richard

Received a fairly minor education, remaining mostly self-taught. In 1638, he began teaching at an elementary school in Dudley , where he was ordained a priest. At first he was a preacher in Kidderminster . Driven from the beginning of the civil war at the beginning of the civil war , in 1642, he joined the parliamentary army as a field priest of one independent regiment. In 1649 he returned to his former community; but when (in 1662) a famous act of uniformity appeared, Baxter, forced to leave his post, retired to Acton (now in London). The indulgence of 1672 (Declaration of indulgence) gave him again the opportunity to speak publicly as a preacher. He went to London , but on the basis of certain passages from his “Paraphrase of the New Testament” was brought to justice and sentenced to imprisonment and a fine. Only with the accession to the throne of Wilhelm III (1689), the established tolerance for all Protestant denominations gave Baxter the desired peace, which he enjoyed for a short time to death.

Its significance consists in the fact that thanks to him, the English theology was carried out in a more gentle, in the spirit of M. Amiro , Calvinism, called Baxterianism and preaching, however, the purpose of a certain number of mortals to salvation, but not allowing forward predetermined rejection for those seeking salvation. The ideal of a preacher he created in his work “The Evangelical Priest” he realized, it seems, in his activity. Wed in the book of "Die Revolutionskirchen Englands" (Berlin, 1868) and in the biography of Baxter, written by .

The works of Baxter were published by in London (1830), then in 1847 in 4 volumes, selected works in German by O. Gerlach (3 ed. Klaus, Karlsruhe, 1882). His autobiography was published by M. Silvestre under the title: "Reliquiae Baxterianae" (London, 1696; 2 ed., 1713). The works of Baxter were translated into Russian many times: “On the eternal peace of the righteous” (St. Petersburg, 1839–40, 1840–49 and 1881; Moscow, 1841), “Ascent to the unconverted” (St. Petersburg, 1835), “Reformed Pastor” (Moscow: Narnia Center, 2010).

Interest in the works of Baxter intensified in the XX century due to the fact that his teaching was one of the subjects of analysis by Max Weber in his work "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism " (1905).

• George David Boyle. Richard Baxter. - L., 1868.

• Several of Baxter's works for the Ethereal Library
• Self-Denial one of the sermons of Richard Baxter
• Plain Scripture Proof of Infants Church by Richard Baxter (1656)
• Five Disputations of the Church of the Government, and Worship by Richard Baxter (1659)
• Richard Baxter (1662)
• The Life of Faith by Richard Baxter (1670)
• Reliquiæ Baxterianæ: or, Mr. Richard Baxter's Richard Baxter (1696)
• An Abridgement of Mr. Anxious Ministers, & c. The King of the King Charles II ... and the Edmund Calamy (1713)
• The Reformed Pastor; Office of Richard Baxter, ed. Samuel Parker (1808)
• A Christian Directory: Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience , Volume I by Richard Baxter (Richard Edwards, 1825)
• A Christian Directory: Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience , Volume II by Richard Baxter (Richard Edwards, 1825)
• A Christian Directory: Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience , Volume III by Richard Baxter (Richard Edwards, 1825)
• A Christian Directory: Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience , Volume IV by Richard Baxter (Richard Edwards, 1825)
• A Christian Directory: Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience , Volume V by Richard Baxter (Richard Edwards, 1825)
• On The Genesis V.24 by Richard Baxter (J. Owen, 1825)
• Memoirs of Margaret Baxter: Daughter of Francis Charlton and Wife of Richard Baxter (Richard Edwards, 1826)
• A Call to the Unconverted. By Essays by Richard Baxter, (1829)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume I , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume II , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume III , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume IV , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume V , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume VI , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume VII , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume X , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume XI , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume XII , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume XIII , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume XV , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume XVI , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume XVII , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume XVIII , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume XIX , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume XXI , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume XXII , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter , Volume XXIII , ed. William Orme (1830)
• The Life and Times of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Critical Examination of His Writings , Volume I by William Orme (1831)
• The Life and Times of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Critical Examination of His Writings , Volume II by William Orme (1831)
• Select Practical Writings of Richard Baxter , Volume I , ed. Leonard Bacon (1831)
• Converse with God in Solitude by Richard Baxter (C. Wells, 1833)
• Select Practical Writings of Richard Baxter , Volume II , ed. Leonard Bacon (1835)
• Jesuit Juggling: Detected and Disclosed by Richard Baxter (Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1835)
• "Making Light of Christ and Salvation," "By The God of Love," by Richard Baxter, ed. Thomas W. Jenkyn (1846)
• Saved by Richard Baxter, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (1868)
• The Saints' Everlasting Rest; or, A Treatise on the Blessing of Gods by Richard Baxter (T. Nelson & Sons, 1872)
• The Life of Rev. Richard Baxter by the American Tract Society (19th century)
• How to Spend the Day with God by Richard Baxter (on www.theologynetwork.org )