| 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. |
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| Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Nov 1634 and 31 Dec 1649 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Record ID: | 4593 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: 03 December 2023 | |
| 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. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)