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Richard Baxter on Holiness
Richard Baxter on Holiness

“Holiness is a turning from a deceitful world to God; and preferring the Creator before the creature, and heaven before earth, and eternity before an inch of time, and our souls before our corruptible bodies, and the authority and Jaws of God, the universal Governor of the world, before the word or will of any man, how great soever; and a subjecting our sensitive faculties to our reason, and advancing this reason by Divine revelation; and living by faith, and not by sight: in a word, it is a laying up our treasure in heaven, setting our hearts there, and living in a a heavenly conversation, setting our affections on the things above, and not on the things that are on earth: and a rejoicing in hope of the glory to come, when sensualists have nothing but transitory, brutish pleasures to rejoice in.”

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Christian LifeCourtney Brewer
Thy Will Be Done
Thy Will Be Done

“If God should wish to take me, he will surely find me and I have done what he has expected of me and so I am not responsible for either my own death or the death of others,” Martin Luther wrote in the 1527 Bubonic Plague.

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Christian LifeCourtney Brewer