Prepared to Serve

More from J.W. Alexander (p.139). Speaking of Richard Baxter he says,

'to look at his controversial works, overladen with enormous quotations from Chrysostom, Jerome, Hales, Scotus, the Reformers, and the very Jesuits, you would say that he was never out of his study: to look at his preachings, catechisings, visits, and imprisonments, you would say that he was never in it.'