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Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest Quotes: Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
         

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).


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Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
         



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The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).



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what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!



Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).



The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).



If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).



He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]

He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]



[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]



If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).



O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).



Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!





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