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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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Teaching, Life Is Short, Soul

Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.122

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Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

Richard Baxter

World, Paganism, Chance

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Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

Richard Baxter

Death, Christian, Blessing

Richard Baxter (1660). “A Treatise of Selfdenyall”, p.223

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Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

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Men, Proud

Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings : in Twenty-three Volumes”, p.162

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It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?

Richard Baxter

Men, Thinking, May

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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.

Richard Baxter

Believe, Son, Doe

"The Saint's Everlasting Rest: Or a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven". Book by Richard Baxter. Chapter: "The Nature of the Saints' Rest", 1650.

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I did nothing that I might not have done better.

Richard Baxter

Humility, Done, Might

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In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.

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Christian, Blessing, Eden

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Surely love is both work and wages.

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Love Is, Wages

Richard Baxter (1831). “The Saints' Everlasting Rest”, p.72

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A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.

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Writing, Suffering, Littles

Richard Baxter, Benjamin Fawcett (1824). “The Saints' Everlasting Rest: Or, a Treatise on the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven : to which are Added Dying Thoughts”, p.347

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An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

Richard Baxter

Sorrow, Mirth, Pounds

Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.376

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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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Lying, Flames, Laughing

Richard Baxter (1847). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter; with a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works, and Times ...”

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This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

Richard Baxter

Study, Ends, Sanctification

Richard BAXTER, Rev. William BROWN (M.D., Son of John Brown of Haddington.), Daniel WILSON (Bishop of Calcutta.) (1829). “The Reformed Pastor ... Revised and Abridged by the Rev. William Brown ... With an Introductory Essay, by the Rev. Daniel Wilson. [With a Portrait.]”, p.26

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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.

Richard Baxter

Christian, Cheer, Joy

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If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?

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Years, Fire, Flames

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I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many others, but yet did profit me more than most; because he would never in prayer or conference speak of God, or the life to come, but with such marvelous seriousness and reverence, as if he had seen the majesty and glory which he talked of.

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Prayer, Godly, Majesty

Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.256

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Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love.

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Vigor, Heat, Conjugal

"The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings".

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You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.

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Thinking, Doors, Feet

Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.423

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Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

Richard Baxter

Men, Tolerance, Different

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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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Hurt, Prayer, Sacrifice

Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.224

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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.

Richard Baxter

Understanding, Storm, Sound

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I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Saviour and our Gospel had grown stale.

Richard Baxter

Faith, Men, Essentials

Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.11

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To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

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Wise, Library, Helping

Richard Baxter (1656). “The Reformed Pastor, Showing the Nature of the Pastoral Work ... Reprinted from the Edition of 1656, with an Appendix Afterwards Added”, p.88

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If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince: would they be afraid to go to bed....?

Richard Baxter

Death, Christian, Morning

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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!

Richard Baxter

Humility, Self, People

Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.161

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Born: November 12, 1615
Died: December 8, 1691
Occupation: Poet
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