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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 The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650)

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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.

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

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)

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