

Directions for the government of the passions –.Directions for the government of the thoughts –.Directions for redeeming as well as improving time –.Directions against the great sins most directly contrary to godliness (continued):.This volume contains a continuation of Christian Ethics (or, Private Duties) – Against hardness of heart – Ī Body of Practical Divinity, or A Christian Directory, Volume 2.


After the Restoration he refused preferment, while retaining a non-separatist Presbyterian approach, and became one of the most influential leaders of the nonconformists, spending time in prison. Dean Stanley called him “the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen.” After some false starts, he made his reputation by his ministry at Kidderminster, and at around the same time began a long and prolific career as theological writer. Richard Baxter (1615–1691) was an English Puritan church leader, poet, hymn-writer, theologian, and controversialist.
