For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for all, and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another, but it is true that it was never the intent of his mind to pardon and save any that would not by faith and repentance be converted.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further the success of your labors. You are not like to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. Some little religion there may be, here and there; but while it is confined to single persons, and is not promoted in families, it will not prosper, nor promise much future increase.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
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 resisting the spirit of grace.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
The Word of God (The Holy Bible) says that knowledge puffs up, which leads to pride. And pride leads to arrogance, but do not mistake confidence for pride, there is a difference. For pride is unmerited confidence in yourself, and true confidence is trusting in the One (Jesus) who did it all. Have a blessed day!!!
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 (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
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 (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
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 (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
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 (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)