He that believed that he believe, believed himself and not God (333)[.]

— Richard Baxter

He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).

— Richard Baxter

I am persuaded our discontents, and murmurings without unpleasing condition, and our covetous desires after more, are not so provoking to God, nor so destructive to the sinner, as our too sweet enjoying, and rest of spirit in a pleasing state. . . . Our rest is our heaven, and where we take our rest, there we make our heaven (457).

— Richard Baxter

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).

— Richard Baxter

If anything keep thy soul out of heaven, which God forbid, there is nothing in the world liker to do it, than thy false hopes of being saved, while thou art yet out of the way to salvation (234). (III.III)

— Richard Baxter

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

— Richard Baxter

If the good so loved and desired do appear possible and feasible in the attaining, then it excited the passion of hope, which is a compound of desire and expectation : when we look upon it as requiring our endeavor to attain it, and as it is to be had in a prescribed way, then it provokes the passion of courage or boldness, and concludes in resolution. Lastly, If this good be apprehended as preset, then ti provoked to delight or joy. If the thing itself be present, the by is greatest. If the idea of it, either through the remainder or memory of the good that is past, or through the fore-apprehension of that which we expect, yet even this also excited our joy. And this joy is the perfection of all the rest of the affections, when it is raised on the full fruition of the good itself (575).

— Richard Baxter

[I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labor, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).

— Richard Baxter

If thy meditation tends to fill thy notebook with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553).

— Richard Baxter

If your hope diet, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likeness and preparation(585).

— Richard Baxter