Quotes from baxter richard ii

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

I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-players use to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God.

Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement?

And satan, having liberty to tempt and try us, will quickly raise up storms and waves before us, as soon as we are set to sea; which make young beginners often fear, that they shall never live to reach the haven.

The most dangerous mistake that our Souls are capable of, is, to take the Creature for God, and Earth for Heaven. And yet alas, how common is this. And in how great a degree are the best guilty of it.

Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land.

Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering.

Be most suspicious of your hearts in cases where self-interest or passions are engaged; for they will easily deal deceitfully and cheat yourselves in the smoke and dust of such distempers.

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.

Let Scripture be first and most in your hearts and hands and other books be used as subservient to it.