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If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

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Richard Baxter
Age: 76 †
Born: 1615
Born: November 12
Died: 1691
Died: December 8
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Rowton
Shropshire
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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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Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.
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Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days of persecution, which drove us together in love, whom the sunshine of liberty and prosperity crumbles into dust by our contentions!
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Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to the sinner,nor is a matter od offence to we who behold it.
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Hell is paved with infants skulls.
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Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
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To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
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Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
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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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I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
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Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
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Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.
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Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot decline and neglect your duty to your own hurt alone, many will be losers by it as well as you.
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This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
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It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.
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Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.
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Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.
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The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
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Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial force it to answer the interrogatories put to it set the qualifications of the saints on one side, and the qualifications of thy soul on the other side, and then judge what resemblance there is between them.
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Screw the truth into men's minds.
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