Record Number: 4593

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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

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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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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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

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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://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4593, accessed: 25 November 2024

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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.