It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when...God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when none in heaven or earth can help them but God, and he shall rejoice over them in their calamity

Richard Baxter

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

Richard Baxter

bed dying blessing

A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.

Richard Baxter

sick suffering men

Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.

Richard Baxter

holiness dedication soul-and-body

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Richard Baxter

this-life preparation perfection

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Richard Baxter

faults compassionate humble

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.

Richard Baxter

choices teacher book

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

Richard Baxter

dying prayer men

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Richard Baxter

delay able tree

Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

Richard Baxter

hate play moving

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Richard Baxter

siege maintenance fuel

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

Richard Baxter

suffering heart doors

We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes.

Richard Baxter

mother father children

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

Richard Baxter

leading-me rooms christ

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

Richard Baxter

unity charity liberty

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Richard Baxter

study brain motivational

Hell is paved with infants skulls.

Richard Baxter

hell skulls religious

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Richard Baxter

ifs say-anything

The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

Richard Baxter

religious heart mean

It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.

Richard Baxter

contradiction humble christian

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

Richard Baxter

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