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Richard Baxter - 8th December 1691
Richard Baxter - 8th December 1691
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Richard Baxter
Died
8th December 1691
The Lord is not drowning His sheep when He washes them nor
killing them when He is shearing them.
If they can see that you love them, you can say anything to them.
Lord, whatever you want, wherever you want it, and whenever
you want it, that's what I want.
Take ten looks at Christ for each one you take at self.
And the longer you delay (to repent) 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?
Think what the soul of man is made for, and should be used to,
even to love, obey, and glorify our Maker; and then you will see
what sin is, which disables and perverts it.
I have pain; but I have peace.
Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it
is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it,
therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.
You love not death; love not the cause of death.
The work may be God’s, and yet, because of pride, we may do it,
not for God but for ourselves.
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful
object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The
more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more
perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven and the more
glorious that glory.
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but
the preparation for it.
It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.
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.
A hard heart now makes heaven and hell seem but trifles. We
have showed them everlasting glory and misery, and they are as
men asleep; our words are as stones cast against a wall, which
fly back in our faces. We talk of terrible things, but it is to dead
men; we search the wounds, but they never feel it; we speak to
rocks rather than to men; the earth will as soon tremble as they.
Know and consider the wonderful love and mercy of God, and
think what he has done for you; and you will hate sin, and be
ashamed of it.
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.
They are now in a dead sleep, and dream that they are the
happiest men in the world; but when death awakes them, how
will their judgments be changed in a moment! and they that
would not see, shall then see, and be ashamed.
Gathered by Totaf.