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A Grief Sanctified

Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope

J I Packer and Richard Baxter

A Grief Sanctified

Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope

J I Packer and Richard Baxter

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Including Richard Baxter's timeless memoir of his wife's life and death.

Their love story is not one of fairy tales. It is one of faithfulness from the beginning through to its tragic ending. Richard and Margaret Baxter had been married only nineteen years before she died at age forty-five. A prominent pastor and prolific author, Baxter sought consolation and relief the only true way he knew - in Scripture with his discipline of writing. Within days he produced a lover's tribute to his mate and a pastor's celebration of God's grace. It is spiritual storytelling at its best, made all the more poignant by the author's unveiling of his grief.

J. I. Packer has added his own astute reflections along with his edited version of this exquisite memoir that considers six of life's realities-love, faith, death, grief, hope, and patience. He guides you in comparing and contrasting the world's and the Bible's ideals on coping with these tides of life.

The powerful combination of Packer's insights and Baxter's grief gives you a beacon if you are searching for God, a pathfinder for your relationships, and a lifeline if you are grieving.

  • Title

    A Grief Sanctified

  • Author(s)

    J I Packer and Richard Baxter

  • ISBN

    9781433516429

  • Format

    eBook

  • Publisher

    Crossway

  • Topic

    Death & Eternity, Suffering & Loss

  • Audience

    Adults

  • Pages

    192

  • Published

    09/24/2002

J I Packer

J I Packer

Dr. James Innell Packer (1926-2020) was one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. He was author of the best-selling book Knowing God, which has sold more than one million copies since its original publication in 1973. He passed away at the age of 93 on July 17, 2020.

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Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter (1615-1691) is chiefly remembered for the transformation his pastoral ministry effected on the town of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, during two periods of pastoral ministry there (interrupted by the English Civil War, in which he served as chaplain to the Parliamentary forces) between 1641 and 1661. Born in Rowton, Shropshire, Baxter attended Wroxeter Grammar School but most of his study was done through his own private reading. He was ordained by John Thornborough, Bishop of Worcester, in 1638, and after a short time as a school-master in Dudley, became an assistant minister in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, before moving to Kidderminster in 1641. After leaving there in 1661, he preached in London, but was ejected from the Church of England the following year. When almost fifty, Baxter married Margaret Charlton, one of his converts, who was in her early twenties. In spite of the difference in ages, they had an excellent marriage, and Margaret shared her husband’s passion for Christ and the salvation of souls. Baxter suffered much ill-health, and the last twenty-nine years of his life were further ’embittered by repeated prosecutions, fines, imprisonment, and harassing controversies’ (Ryle), but there was some respite with the accession of William and Mary in 1689, just two years before his death.

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