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Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

Richard Baxter
Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Richard Baxter
We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

Richard Baxter
Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

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

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Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before.

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'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

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I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.

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

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Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

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Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

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Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell...

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In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

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Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.

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

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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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We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

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You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

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Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

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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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As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

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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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In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

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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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To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

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Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

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If life be long I will be glad, that I may long obey; if short, yet why should I be sad to welcome to endless day?

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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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Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.

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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.

Richard Baxter