The Saints' Everlasting Rest

The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Author: Richard Baxter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 558
Release: 1851
Genre: Devotional literature
ISBN:

Richard Baxter wrote "The Saints' Everlasting Rest" to help prepare him for death during a life-threatening illness. It has inspired Christians for centuries to lift their eyes above this world to the place where they will spend eternity. Born in 1615, Richard Baxter lived and ministered throughout most of the seventeenth century. After being forced from his pulpit with some two thousand other Puritan ministers in the Great Ejection of 1660, he continued his writing ministry, authoring more than 140 books. Originally published in 1649, this work was forty-six chapters long, covering 844 pages. It was abridged in 1758, condensing it to sixteen chapters. Reading Baxter's book will challenge you to rediscover the wonders of the Lord through reflection and meditation. Taking captive our thoughts and making them obedient to Christ will make us strong in the faith and bring victory to our spiritual walks.--

The Rise of Oriental Travel

The Rise of Oriental Travel
Author: G. Maclean
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2004-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230511767

This book follows four Seventeenth-century Englishmen on their journeys around the Ottoman Empire while the British were, for the first time in history, becoming important players in the Mediterranean. This book shows that hostility between East and West is neither historical nor inevitable, but rather the result of selective memory.

Immigration of the Irish Quakers Into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750

Immigration of the Irish Quakers Into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750
Author: Albert Cook Myers
Publisher: Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1902
Genre: History
ISBN:

Here in one volume is combined a history of the Quakers in Ireland and in Pennsylvania--a work no less esteemed for its invaluable abstracts of genealogical source materials. The Appendix, comprising fully one-third of the volume, includes biographical sketches and abstracts of certificates of removal received at various monthly meetings, together providing such information as dates of birth, marriage and death, places of residence in Ireland, names of family members, dates of immigration, and places of residence in Pennsylvania.

Dreams in Early Modern England

Dreams in Early Modern England
Author: Janine Riviere
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351744135

Dreams in Early Modern England shows the variety and complexity of the early modern English discourses on dreams, from the role of dreams and dream theory in framing religious, scientific and philosophical debates, to the way that dreams continued to offer important spiritual and supernatural guidance and lastly how ordinary people exercised agency over their lives through interpreting and using dreams. While today we tend to conceptualize dreams and dreaming as largely psychological, this study shows how early modern people understood dreams and dreaming as many different things, most significantly as political, religious, medical, philosophical and supernatural.