A Grief Sanctified: Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope

by J. I. Packer, Richard Baxter (Contribution by)

Overview

A Puritan biography made more poignant by the author's unveiling of his grief, edited and accompanied by a contemporary theologian's reflections on death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581344400
Publisher:	Crossway
Publication date:	09/24/2002
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

J. I. Packer (DPhil, Oxford University) serves as the Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology at Regent College. He is the author of numerous books, including the classic best-seller Knowing God. Packer served as general editor for the English Standard Version Bible and as theological editor for the ESV Study Bible.

RICHARD BAXTER (1615-1691) was a leading English Puritan churchman, theologian, and writer. He authored nearly 170 works, including the 1,143-page Christian Directory, Methodus Theologiae Christianae, and Catholic Theology.

Table of Contents

	Prologue: To the Reader	9
Part 1	Great Gladness: Margaret with Richard
	Two Puritans	17
Part 2	Great Goodness: Richard Recalls Margaret
	To the Reader	47
1	Of Her Parentage and the Occasion of Our Acquaintance	51
2	Of Her Conversion, Sickness, and Recovery	53
3	Of the Workings of Her Soul In and After This Sickness	59
4	Some Parcels of Counsel for Her Deliverance from This Distressed Case, Which I Find Reserved by Her for Her Use	77
5	Her Temper, Occasioning These Troubles of Mind	85
6	Of Our Marriage and Our Habitations	89
7	Of Her Exceeding Desires to Do Good	95
8	Of Her Mental Qualifications and Her Infirmities	105
9	Of Her Bodily Infirmities and Her Death	121
10	Some Uses Proposed to the Reader from This History, as the Reasons Why I Wrote It	125
Appendix	Two Poems from Poetical Fragments (1681)	135
Part 3	Great Sadness: Richard Without Margaret
	The Grieving Process	143
	Epilogue: To the Reader, Once More	171
	Notes	175