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Record 4593

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
... between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called _The Saints Everlasting Rest_, she was more throughly awakened, and brought to set her heart on God, and to seek salvation with her chiefest care: From that time forward she was a more constant, diligent, serious hearer of the ablest Ministers in London.
Century: 1600-1699
Date: Between 1 Nov 1634 and 31 Dec 1649
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Elizabeth Baker
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1 Nov 1634
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: wife of minister
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Richard Baxter
Title: The Saints Everlasting Rest
Genre: Other religious
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: likely the 1649 (earliest) edition, based on Baker's memory of the year in which she read it
Provenance: n/a

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4593  
Source - Print  
  Author: Richard Baxter
  Editor: n/a
  Title: A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed shewing wherein its enmity consisteth and how it is destroyed:
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1660
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 227
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Richard Baxter, A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed shewing wherein its enmity consisteth and how it is destroyed: (London, 1660), p. 227, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4593, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

We have not entered all the reading experiences from this book. The transcription comes from the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Baker's estimate of when she read the book does not quite correlate with the earliest edition of the book in the English Short Title Catalogue.

 

 

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