Sunday Dec 18th.
I read Wesley’s pamphlet thro’ a second time; and I read nearly three chapters of Baxter’s Saint’s rest, & Erskine’s prolegomena. Baxter is exquisite. He sings with the spirit, & he sings with the understanding also—[1]
A tame but inoffensive preacher at the gate. I was not at church.
1. Richard Baxter (1615–91) first published The Saints Everlasting Rest; or, a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their Enjoyment of God in Glory in 1650 (London). It was subsequently abridged by Benjamin Fawcett (1715–80), and the 16th edn. of this shortened version (London, 1824) contained an Introductory Essay by Thomas Erskine (1788–1870).
