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Richard Baxter Biography

Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Puritan church leader, poet, hymnodist, theologian, and controversialist. Dean Stanley called him "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". After some false starts, he made his reputation by his ministry at Kidderminster, and at around the same time began a long and prolific career as theological writer. After the Restoration he refused preferment, while retaining a non-separatist Presbyterian approach, and became one of the most influential leaders of the Nonconformists, spending time in prison. His views on justification and sanctification are somewhat controversial within the Calvinist tradition because his teachings seem, to some, to undermine salvation by faith, in that he emphasizes the necessity of repentance and faithfulness.

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If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince: would they be afraid to go to bed. . . . ?

Death, Christian, Morning, Bed, Today

This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

Devoted, Ends, God, Sanctification, Study

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

Wise, Men, Light, World, Illuminated, Shining

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

Holiday, Today, Tomorrow, Working

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Understanding, Storm, Sound, Life, Gracious

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

Hard, Making, Rocks, Stones, Tears, Tremble

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

Blame, Conscience, Forever, Hell, Rational

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

Gratitude, Mercy, Special, Universal

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church. . . but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings.

Book, Choices, Credible, False, Make, Teacher

When Christ comes with regenerating grace, he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste toward hell; till, by conviction, he first brings them to a stand, and then, by conversion, turn first their hearts, and then their lives, sincerely to himself.

Brings, Christ, Heart, Men, Regenerating, Sitting Still

I did nothing that I might not have done better.

Done, Humility, Might, Nothing

Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands; are far readier to receive a doctrine that tends to their carnal commodity, or honor, or delight, than one that tends to self-denial.

Brain, Hands, Men, Opinions, Self

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.

Deeds, Desire, Desires, God, Men, Took

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.

Know, Littles, Managed, Purpose, Stands, Study

Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.

Bored, Christian, Early, Old, Progress

An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.

Dental Work, Funny, Gain, Rotting, Teeth, Tooth

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

Doors, Easier, Hath, Heart, Suffering, Word

It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.

Christian, Contradiction, Humble, True

In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.

Blessing, Christian, Eden, Heavenly, Paradise, Way

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.

Believe, Bring, Doe, God, Son

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