Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial; force it to answer the interrogatories put to it; set the qualifications of the saints on one side, and the qualifications of thy soul on the other side, and then judge what resemblance there is between them.
Richard BaxterYou shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.
Richard BaxterPrayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
Richard Baxter