Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), renowned English novelist and master printer, was also a prolific letter writer. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete edition of his letters. These three volumes contain his correspondence, much of it published for the first time, with two fascinating women: Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (1705–85) and her sister Elizabeth, Lady Echlin (1704–82). Lady Bradshaigh was Richardson's most prolific and important correspondent, challenging him about a range of issues, literary and otherwise, including his intentions for Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, in an iconoclastic style. Lady Echlin lived in Ireland for much of her life and provided Richardson with information on Irish issues, including the Dublin editions of his novels. The scholarly apparatus in this volume furnishes a wealth of material about these women's lives and their milieu, affording many insights into eighteenth-century English and Irish social and literary history.

Complete collection of all the available writings of Samuel Richardson. 1645-1658. Volume 2. Collected Writings of Samuel Richardson: Containing - Biographical Sketch - Some Brief Considerations on Doctor Featley's Book / 1645 - The Saint's Desire; or a Cordial for a Fainting Soul / 1647 - Certain Questions Propounded to the Assembly / 1647 - Justification by Christ Alone / 1647 - Necessity of Religious Toleration / 1647 & Plain Dealing / 1656 - Divine Consolations or A Fountain of Life & Comfort / 1649 - An Answer to the London Ministers Letter / 1649 - The Cause of the Poor Pleaded / 1653 - An Apology for The Present Government / 1654 - A Discourse on the Torments of Hell / 1658 - London Confession of Faith / 1646.

Complete collection of all the available writings of Samuel Richardson. 1645-1658. Volume 1. Collected Writings of Samuel Richardson: Containing - Biographical Sketch - Some Brief Considerations on Doctor Featley's Book / 1645 - The Saint's Desire; or a Cordial for a Fainting Soul / 1647 - Certain Questions Propounded to the Assembly / 1647 - Justification by Christ Alone / 1647 - Necessity of Religious Toleration / 1647 & Plain Dealing / 1656 - Divine Consolations or A Fountain of Life & Comfort / 1649 - An Answer to the London Ministers Letter / 1649 - The Cause of the Poor Pleaded / 1653 - An Apology for The Present Government / 1654 - A Discourse on the Torments of Hell / 1658 - London Confession of Faith / 1646.

Christ crucified, the sum and substance of the Gospel; the Priesthood of Christ, and the sufficiency of his Sacrifice to save, is the main thing I contend for against the Papists, who say, Christ's sacrifice is not sufficient without their sacrifice. Charity saves, says one. Without good works, no salvation, says another. A third says that Christ's sacrifice is not sufficient for our Salvation without believing, that believing saves, and that without believing, we cannot be saved. Ye see, they all urge a necessity of something for salvation besides Christ's Sacrifice, without which something, they say, we cannot be saved; so that they deny the sufficiency of Christ's sacrifice to save, and so deny that Christ does save. For those he saves, he saves by his sacrifice. Also if Christ and something else saves us, Christ saves us not. For he is no Saviour if he be but a part of a Saviour; therefore, in adding something to Christ's sacrifice, they deny the sufficiency of Christ's sacrifice.

The Saint's Desire, declaring that in Christ's righteousness only, {and in nothing else} there is life, happiness, peace, strength, comfort, joy, and all fullness of perfection. From the Preface: "My whole aim and scope in all I have written, is, first, to sustain, comfort, and encourage the discouraged soul from sinking in despair, by reason of their many and great sins; secondly, to withdraw the soul from the life of its own hand, to the life of the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. Thirdly, that the soul might know and live in the assurance of the love of God, which will fill the soul full of life, sweetness, and joy. Fourthly, that the soul should obey Christ, and live to his Glory, and suffer for him. Fifthly, to prevent errors, and to rescue such who belong to Christ, who have through mistake fallen into blunders by the wiles of Satan." Includes a Biographical Sketch of the Author.