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Men Quotes by Richard Baxter
- I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
- If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had…
- It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and diligent…
- I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one…
- The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not…
- Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?
- When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on…
- Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works;…
- Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called…
- When Christ comes with regenerating grace, he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste toward hell; till, by…
- To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
- Will any man that hath not lost his senses, now stand caviling, and quarrelling, that so few should be saved, instead of making sure of…
- It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.
- Screw the truth into men's minds.
- God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare…
- A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth…
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