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Richard Baxter foi um líder puritano inglês, sacerdote, escritor, a quem Dean Stanley chamou "o chefe dos protestantes intelectuais da Inglaterra". Em A ética protestante e o espírito do Capitalismo, Max Weber chama ao texto "Christian Directory" de Baxter um "compêndio de teologia moral puritana". O seu escrito mais famoso é "O Descanso Eterno dos Santos" de 1650. Na doutrina da Predestinação, sua posição assemelhava-se à do francês Moyse Amyraut . O termo "Baxterianismo" traduz um Calvinismo moderado, ao afirmar que Deus escolheu de fato apenas um limitado número de pessoas, mas não despreza ou rejeita ninguém, propondo uma elaboração teológica que interliga ambos os sistemas, calvinismo e arminianismo, convocando-lhes ao diálogo mais próximo com vista não só a contemplar o atributo de soberania divina, mas, igualmente preservando incólumes seu amor e justiça.



De todos os puritanos, Baxter foi o mais prolífico deles, tendo escrito 79 volumes, deixando assim um legado inestimável às futuras gerações. O que distinguia Baxter de todos os seus pares era a coragem no enfrentamento de temas difíceis da Escritura, conduzindo sua argumentação com muita perícia, serenidade e firmeza. Reputado como o maior pastor da tradição puritana é, enfrentou críticas de muitos calvinistas em razão de sua soteriologia. É um ícone a ser lembrado, embora injustiçado sobretudo em razão de seu pioneirismo na disposição para navegar na contra-mão da maioria estabelecendo novos paradigmas teológicos. Baxter nutria certa aversão por Confissões e não escondia seu desprazer pelos esforços em exigir uniformidade confessional das igrejas privando-lhe da liberdade de investigar por si mesma a Palavra de Deus e de fazer livremente suas escolhas em matéria de fé. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Novembro 1615 – 8. Dezembro 1691   •   Outros nomes 리차드 백스터, ريتشارد باكستر
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“O what a blessed day that will be when I shall… stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!”

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“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.”

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The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The Nature of the Saints' Rest"

“Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.”

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The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The Splendor of the Saints' Rest"

“Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?”

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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 36.

“In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.”

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The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The People Who Receive the Saints' Rest"

“Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before.”

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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 11.

“It pleased the great Creator of the world to make three sorts of living creatures. Angels he made pure spirits, without flesh, and therefore he made them only for heaven and not to dwell on earth. Beasts were made flesh, without immortal souls, and therefore they were made only for the earth and not for heaven: Man is of a middle nature between both, as partaking of both flesh and spirit, so is he made for earth, but as his passage or way to heaven, and not that this should be his home or happiness. The blessed state that man was made for was to behold the glorious majesty of the Lord and to praise him among his holy angels; and to love him, and to be filled with his love forever.”

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Richard Baxter livro A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live

A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Sermon 1

“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.”

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The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The Nature of the Saints' Rest"

“Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.”

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A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Mr. John Corbet

“As the fire doth mount upwards, and the needle that is touched with the loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined to God. Nothing else can satisfy him, nor can he find any content and rest but in his love. In a word, all that are converted do esteem and love God better than all the world; and the heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their fleshly prosperity.”

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Richard Baxter livro A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live

A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Sermon 1

“If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come."”

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"Even so, come, Lord Jesus."
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 102.

“And therefore you must know that you can forfeit the grace and help of God by your willful sinning or negligence, though you cannot, without grace, turn to God. If you will not do what you can, it is just with God to deny you that grace by which you might do more.”

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Richard Baxter livro A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live

A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Preface.