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1615–1691 England
Richard Baxter (November 12, 1615 – December 8, 1691) was an English Puritan church leader, divine scholar and controversialist, called by Dean Stanley "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen".
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Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.
The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650)
Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.
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.
The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650)
I preached as never sure to preach again,
Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before.
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.
The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650)
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.
All are making haste towards hell, until by conviction, Christ brings them to a halt, and then, by conversion, turns their hearts and lives sincerely to himself.
The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650)
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?
An aching tooth is better out than in,
Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.
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."
And therefore you must know that you can forfeit the grace and help of God by your willful sinning or negligence, though you cannot, without grace, turn to God. If you will not do what you can, it is just with God to deny you that grace by which you might do more.
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