Richard Baxter's Practical Works - a couple of questions

[chicagophil]

Hi,

I see RHB (under their SDG brand) is publishing a 4 volume Baxter's practical works.

A few decades ago I got two volumes of Baxter's practical works published by SDG at the time. Vol 1 was a Christian Directory and Vol 2 was an alarm to the unconverted. Are these volumes being published now a reprint of that edition? Is the text and layout the same?

Also, I imagine there is more than the Saint's Everlasting Rest in Vol 3 - does anyone have a list of the contents of that volume? (I know the original was quite long compared to the versions that are published on their own today)

Thanks,
Phil

(first post here for me, so please forgive if I've done something out of line)

 

[Regi Addictissimus]

Hi,

I see RHB (under their SDG brand) is publishing a 4 volume Baxter's practical works.

A few decades ago I got two volumes of Baxter's practical works published by SDG at the time. Vol 1 was a Christian Directory and Vol 2 was an alarm to the unconverted. Are these volumes being published now a reprint of that edition? Is the text and layout the same?

Also, I imagine there is more than the Saint's Everlasting Rest in Vol 3 - does anyone have a list of the contents of that volume? (I know the original was quite long compared to the versions that are published on their own today)

Thanks,
Phil

(first post here for me, so please forgive if I've done something out of line)

Hello, great questions. Yes, these are the same print layout as our last edition.

I will take some pictures of the ToC later.

 

[Regi Addictissimus]

But in the meantime, volume 4, besides The Saint's Everlasting Rest, also includes The Life of Faith, The Divine Life, The Divine Appointment of the Lord's Day Proved, Further Confirmation of the Lord's Day, Obedient Patience, Dying Thoughts, and Short Meditations. I think I got them all.

Volume 4 is a masterpiece of devotional theology. Seriously.

 

[chicagophil]

But in the meantime, volume 4, besides The Saint's Everlasting Rest, also includes The Life of Faith, The Divine Life, The Divine Appointment of the Lord's Day Proved, Further Confirmation of the Lord's Day, Obedient Patience, Dying Thoughts, and Short Meditations. I think I got them all.

Volume 4 is a masterpiece of devotional theology. Seriously.

Thank you very much! I imagine at some point they will be available individually and I'll pick up the two I don't have then.

 

[Regi Addictissimus]

Thank you very much! I imagine at some point they will be available individually and I'll pick up the two I don't have then.

I don't believe there are plans to sell those individually, unfortunately.

 

[chicagophil]

That would be understandable.

Thanks for your help!

 

[alexanderjames]

Do you have a rough date for release please? I couldn’t see one on the website.

 

[Regi Addictissimus]

Do you have a rough date for release please? I couldn’t see one on the website.

The launch is this Friday.

 

[chicagophil]

Thanks for all this.

A final *gentle* suggestion from me. It would be really great, in my opinion, if you would put a photo of the text as written by whatever historica author (Baxter in this case) online, or, in the read inside bit, get to the text of the book - don't stop at the prefatory material written by whatever modern author. I was in the store on Friday and purchased Bullinger's decades because the staff let me pull the shrink off one and look at the text. Without that, I would have held off.

 

[Regi Addictissimus]

Thanks for all this.

A final *gentle* suggestion from me. It would be really great, in my opinion, if you would put a photo of the text as written by whatever historica author (Baxter in this case) online, or, in the read inside bit, get to the text of the book - don't stop at the prefatory material written by whatever modern author. I was in the store on Friday and purchased Bullinger's decades because the staff let me pull the shrink off one and look at the text. Without that, I would have held off.

No disagreement from me. I snap interior photos and include them in our emails when the opportunity arises.

I will pass the feedback along to those that add the photos to the website.

 

[bookslover]

A question: any chance that RHB would reprint Matthew Henry's six-volume commentary? I think the last time it was reprinted was when Hendrickson Publishers put it out in 1991 - more than 30 years ago. That's way too long for such a magnificent work to be out of print.