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Screw the truth into men's minds.

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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
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Truth
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Men
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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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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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Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
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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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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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Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day today is his holiday
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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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Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.
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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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Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
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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 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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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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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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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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It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them when...God shall mock them instead of relieving them when none in heaven or earth can help them but God, and he shall rejoice over them in their calamity
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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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I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.
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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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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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