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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.

— Richard Baxter

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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,
And as a dying man to dying men.

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

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