The saints everlasting rest: . or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory. Wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty; the misery of those that lose it; the way to attain it, and assurance of it; and how to live in the continual delightfull foretastes of it, by help of meditation. Written by the author of his own use, in the time of his languishing, when God took him off from all publike imployment; and afterwards preached in his weekly lecture: by Richard Baxter ...
Richard Baxter (1615-1691).
Category
Books
Date
1662
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3017937
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28],284,[4],285-404,409-836,[4]p.,plate . 4to. Note on verso of frontispiece (with title repeated in MS): mr chumli mr laughton Droin / Squire Chumlye [probably not ownership marks; rather childish hand]. Provenance: Inscription on flyleaf: Elizabeth Brownlowe her booke; giuen her by he worthy deare husband Sr Richard Brownlowe Baronet; whoe deceased the 3 of July 1668 ... [with more about him and her miserable state; = Elizabeth lady Brownlow (1634-84) and Sir Richard Brownlowe, 2nd bart. (1628-68)] . Signatures Elizabeth Brownlowe and William Brownlowe repeated several times on flyleaves [= Elizabeth Brownlowe, a daughter (?) and Sir William Brownlow (1665-1702)], also Johas (?) Smith. Bookplates: The Right Honourable Brownlow baron Brownlow (armorial; pasted over another plate, not identified); Belton House (earl's coronet and crests). Old Belton pressmark on pastedown: 74.. Binding: Calf (seventeenth-century), double ruled border and off-centre vertical rules.
Makers and roles
Richard Baxter (1615-1691). Thomas Cross (fl.1632-1682)