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I have pain there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.
Richard Baxter
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Richard Baxter
Age: 76 †
Born: 1615
Born: November 12
Died: 1691
Died: December 8
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Shropshire
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Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing of children in the world especially when they are sent to common schools: for there is scarce any of those schools so good, but hath many rude and ungodly ill-taught children in it.
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A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.
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Do not waste your time on light, weak, milkĀtoast ministries and books
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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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It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?
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We shall then have joy without sorrow, and rest without weariness...Be of good cheer, Christian, the time is near, when God and thou shalt be near, and as near as thou canst well desire. Thou shalt dwell in his family.
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It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.
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'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.
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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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Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.
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An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
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Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?
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Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.
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It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.
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Hell is paved with infants skulls.
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Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
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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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To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
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If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.
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If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
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