Richard Baxter
Sign in to saveEnglish Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1615
- Died
- 1691
- Works
- 902
Top works
- The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise on the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory
- A call to the unconverted
- The lives of Sir. Matthew Hale, knt. Lord Chief Justice of England; Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; and Queen Mary
- An epistle consolatory to the honourable and pious Countess of Balcarres
- The practical works of the late reverend and pious Mr. Richard Baxter
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1922-03-14
- Active to
- 1996-01-15
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 24
- Total plays
- 395
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,391x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,258x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,665x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,311x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x
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Quotes
- “When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.”
- “All are making haste towards hell, until by conviction, Christ brings them to a halt, and then, by conversion, turns their hearts and lives sincerely to himself.”
- “Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.”
- “In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.”
- “Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.”
- “Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before.”
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Key facts
- Born
- 12 November 1615, Rowton, Shropshire , England
- Died
- 8 December 1691 (aged 76), London, England
- Occupations
- church leader, theologian, controversialist, poet
- Tradition or movement
- Puritan , Amyraldian
- Notable ideas
- Neonomianism , Unlimited atonement
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Richard Baxter, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, who has been described as "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". He made his reputation in the late 1630s by his ministry at Kidderminster in Worcestershire, when he also began a long and prolific career as a theological writer.
Following the Act of Uniformity 1662, Baxter refused an appointment as Bishop of Hereford and was expelled from the Church of England. He became one of the most influential leaders of the Nonconformist movement, spending time in prison. His views remain controversial within the Calvinist tradition of Predestination because he taught that Christians are placed under a type of faith-law.
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