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

— 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)

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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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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