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Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest Quotes: The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).
         

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).


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



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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).



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





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