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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.
Richard Baxter
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Richard Baxter
Age: 76 †
Born: 1615
Born: November 12
Died: 1691
Died: December 8
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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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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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Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.
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We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
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Despair of ever being saved, except thou be born again, or of seeing God without holiness, or of having part in Christ except thou love him above father, mother, or thy own life. This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.
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I have pain there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.
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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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It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.
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Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.
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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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I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.
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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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If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.
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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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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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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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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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You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.
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Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day today is his holiday
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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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