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  Richard Baxter - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Baxter blamed both parties, but Worcestershire was a Royalist county, and a man in his position was, while the war continued, exposed to annoyance and danger in a place like Kidderminster.
Baxter joined the Parliamentary army in an attempt to counteract the growth of the sectaries in that field, and maintain the cause of constitutional government in opposition to the republican tendencies of the time.
Richard Baxter held to a form of Amyraldism, a less rigorous form of Calvinism which rejected the idea of a limited atonement in favor of a universal atonement similar to that of the Arminians.
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 Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
Baxter later said that they were all ignorant, two of them being immoral and the last a drunkard - hardly an auspicious start for a man who was later to be offered a bishopric (he refused it) and who was to write The saints' everlasting rest (1650).
In fact Richard Baxter seems to have been singularly unlucky in his education with the exception of his next school, which was at Donnington in the neighbouring parish of Wroxeter.
Baxter had hoped to follow Allestree's example and go to university but his schoolmaster persuaded his parents to send their son to Ludlow Castle, where he would study under Richard Wicksted who was Chaplain to the Council of the Welsh Marches.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Richard Baxter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Richard Baxter was born in the village of Rowton, Shropshire, on 12 November 1615.
Baxter was ordained in 1638 and ministered at Dudley and Bridgnorth before moving to Kidderminster in Worcestershire in 1641.
The Church which I am a member of is the universality of Christians; in conjunction with all particular Churches of Christians in England or elsewhere in the world...” (Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter, letter 899).
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 Christian Directory by Richard Baxter, J.I. Packer
The sheer brilliance of Baxter's achievements in crystallizing a proper form for the life of faith, at a high level of intelligent, Bible-based, theologically-integrated wisdom, and with unfailing compressed clarity, is dazzling to the mind." - J.I. Packer
No Puritan work has ever approached the popularity, scope, or depth of Baxter's classic treatise on applied theology.
With the widespread interest in counseling and practical, biblical living in today's church, this reprint of Baxter's work should be a welcome addition to every library, and to anyone who wishes to give solid scriptural answers to man's most important questions.
www.monergismbooks.com /christdirectory1131.html   (237 words)

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