richard baxter 1656 (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Pages are clean and clear. Binding is tight and square. Book boards are red with gold lettering. Minor shelf wear on the edges of book boards. Dust jacket has crease on back otherwise in good condition. Dust jacket has been price clipped but is protected by mylar.

Hardcover. 125, [1] p.; 18.5 cm. (A treasury of Christian books) [The original 8 chapters condensed into 3 with subsections] `While there are in his writings many passages of splendid prose, Baxter scorned to polish and ornament what he wrote, and in his haste, to tell the truth, was often clumsy. From these faults The Reformed Pastor is by no means free. Yet, for all that, Baxter `speaks things', as Carlyle said of Cromwell, and few can match him for forcefulness. But though some editing of Baxter is inevitable for any modern republication I had not realized to what an extent editors have in fact interfered with The Reformed Pastor by drastic rearrangement and `bowdlerizing' until, in preparing this edition, I was able by the courtesy of Dr Williams' Library to compare several later versions with the original. Some regrouping of the material is very desirable to overcome its repetitiveness. I have made my own selection of passages and have allowed Baxter to write his own book in his own words, even at some cost in neatness and polish and the preservation of some now archaic expressions. I have, however, modernized the spelling.' (p. 11 f.) Good orig. red boards. Lower edge stained.