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The Saint's Everlasting Rest

By: Richard Baxter
Narrated by: Matthew Coles
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Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was a prominent English churchman and peacemaker who sought unity among Protestants. Baxter became well-known for his prolific writing, with more than 200 works to his name. His autobiography and his pastoral guide, The Reformed Pastor, are still popular today. The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650) is one of the great classics of Christian devotion. First abridged in 1754 by John Wesley, five years later another abridgement was made by Benjamin Fawcett, and numerous editions have followed. The work has been translated into Gaelic, German, Dutch, French, and Welsh.

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Heaven is a great theme, however I felt that Baxter focused too much on challenging us to be heavenly minded but didn't actually say as much as I'd hoped about heaven itself.
The performance was also quite distracting, with some strange pronunciation and lots of unnatural mid-sentence pauses. There were also a couple of places near the end when the narrator misread, then corrected himself - but the mistakes weren't edited out!
Worth a listen, but go for the Blackstone Audio version not this one.

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