Richard Baxter was the pre-eminent scholar of the laws of war in the last century. This book brings together his key writings in this area in an accessible form, with a new introduction and bibliographical note written Professor Detlev Vagts and Judge Stephen Schwebel.[...]

..".If you be not converted, you are not true Christians. You may have the name, but you have not the nature."Richard Baxter, A Treatise of Conversion 1657. Puritan religious experience was centered on conversion, the 'new birth' of the soul - the essence of Puritanism.Tim Beougher forensically diss[...]