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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
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Theologian
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Shropshire
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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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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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Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.
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We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
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Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
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We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.
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If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
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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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For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for all, and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another, but it is true that it was never the intent of his mind to pardon and save any that would not by faith and repentance be converted.
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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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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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I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
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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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Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day today is his holiday
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That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.
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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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When Christ comes with regenerating grace, he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste toward hell till, by conviction, he first brings them to a stand, and then, by conversion, turn first their hearts, and then their lives, sincerely to himself.
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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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I have pain there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.
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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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