Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter was an English Puritan church leader, divine scholar and controversialist, called by Dean Stanley "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen".

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• When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.
  • The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The Nature of the Saints' Rest"

• All are making haste towards hell, until by conviction, Christ brings them to a halt, and then, by conversion, turns their hearts and lives sincerely to himself.
  • The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The Nature of the Saints' Rest"

• Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.
  • The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The Splendor of the Saints' Rest"

• In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.
  • The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The People Who Receive the Saints' Rest"

• Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.
  • A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Mr. John Corbet

• Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 11.

• Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 36.

• If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus."
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 102.