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This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
Richard Baxter
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Richard Baxter
Age: 76 †
Born: 1615
Born: November 12
Died: 1691
Died: December 8
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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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To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
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I have pain there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.
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I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.
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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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Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
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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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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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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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Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.
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Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
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Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.
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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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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 foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.
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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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Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
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Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
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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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