This is an edited and updated edition by H&E Publishing of J. C. Ryle's short biography on Richard Baxter.It is seldom that so many gifts are to be found united in one man as they are in Baxter. Eminent personal holiness-amazing power as a preacher-unrivaled pastoral skill-indefatigable diligence as a writer-meekness and patience under undeserved persecution-all meet together in the character of this one man. Place him high in your list of great and good men. Give him the honor he deserves.