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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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Richard Baxter
Age: 76 †
Born: 1615
Born: November 12
Died: 1691
Died: December 8
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Rowton
Shropshire
Enough
Dust
Must
Prosperity
Love
Liberty
Contentions
World
Days
Crumbles
Happy
Contention
Another
Drove
Also
Persecution
Together
Sunshine

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