The causes and danger of slighting Christ and His Gospel or: Eternal salvation made light of by multitudes, to whom it is freely Offered

Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Puritan church leader, poet, hymn-writer, theologian, and controversialist. Richard Baxter held to a form of Amyraldism, a moderated form of Calvinism which rejected the idea of a limited atonement in favor of a universal atonement similar to that of Hugo Grotius. Baxter is best understood as an eclectic scholastic covenantal theologian for whom the distinction between God's conditional covenant (the voluntas de debito) and his absolute will (the voluntas de rerum eventu) is key to the entire theological enterprise. The Substance of the following pages was first preached in the Parish Church at Kidderminster in the Course of the Author’s stated Ministry. It was afterward preached in one of the largest Parish Churches in London, to an Auditory so much crowded.