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If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

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Richard Baxter
Age: 76 †
Born: 1615
Born: November 12
Died: 1691
Died: December 8
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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Rowton
Shropshire
Obey
Welcome
Endless
Glad
Short
May
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Life
Soar

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God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.
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Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!
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We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
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You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.
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It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good but well reading of a few.
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Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day today is his holiday
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For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for all, and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another, but it is true that it was never the intent of his mind to pardon and save any that would not by faith and repentance be converted.
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Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.
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I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.
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Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.
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If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. The Spirit and the bride say, Come. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Hell is paved with infants skulls.
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When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.
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Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.
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The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.
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Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
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We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.
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O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!
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You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.
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An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
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