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Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, who has been described as "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". He made his reputation in the late 1630s by his ministry at Kidderminster in Worcestershire, when he also began a long and prolific career as theological writer. Following the Act of Uniformity 1662, Baxter refused an appointment as Bishop of Hereford and was expelled from the Church of England. He became one of the most influential leaders of the Nonconformist movement, spending time in prison. His views remain controversial within the Calvinist tradition of Predestination because he taught that Christians are placed under a type of faith-law. Personal details Baxter was born on 12 November 1615 at Rowton, Shropshire, in the home of his maternal grandfather, and baptised at its then parish church at High Ercall, before moving in February 1626 to his parents' home in Eaton Constantine. On 10 September 1662, Baxter married Margaret Charlton, who died in 1681.

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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"
“Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.”
— The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The Splendor of 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.
“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.
“As the fire doth mount upwards, and the needle that is touched with the loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined to God. Nothing else can satisfy him, nor can he find any content and rest but in his love. In a word, all that are converted do esteem and love God better than all the world; and the heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their fleshly prosperity.”
— A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Sermon 1

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Notable quotes

“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"
“Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.”
— The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The Splendor of 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.
“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.
“As the fire doth mount upwards, and the needle that is touched with the loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined to God. Nothing else can satisfy him, nor can he find any content and rest but in his love. In a word, all that are converted do esteem and love God better than all the world; and the heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their fleshly prosperity.”
— A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Sermon 1

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Richard Baxter

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