Joanne Sloan has written the introduction for a new edition of Richard Baxter’s classic book “The Saints’ Everlasting Rest.”
She is the author of the “Heroes of the Faith” series that appears each month in The Alabama Baptist. She wrote article about Baxter in “Heroes of the Faith” in December 2015, which was the 400th anniversary of his birth.
Baxter was a prominent English pastor and theologian in the 1600s and was the foremost spokesman of the Puritan cause in the Church of England. His book, “The Saints’ Everlasting Rest,” was one of the most popular books of the 17th century. Today it is a Christian classic.
No book, Sloan said, has done a better or more vivid job of describing the probable nature of heaven and hell. Other than the Bible, perhaps no book has done more than “The Saints’ Everlasting Rest” in persuading people to seek God, repent and be saved, she said.
“The number of accounts of the impact the book had in persuading people to repent is legion,” said Sloan, a member of First Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa.
The book is available for purchase on Amazon.com. (David Sloan)
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