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

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


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



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

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



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



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