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Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

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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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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We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.
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Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in 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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This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
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Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days of persecution, which drove us together in love, whom the sunshine of liberty and prosperity crumbles into dust by our contentions!
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