A Puritan at Heart

Daily quote from the puritans

Hard job of speaking the truth in love

Alas! it is no pleasure to a minister to speak to people upon such an unwelcome subject, any more than it is to a pitiful physician to tell his patient, I do despair of your life, except you let blood. Why, I beseech you, think on it reasonably without prejudice or passion, and tell me where doth God give any hope of your salvation, till you are new creatures? And will it do you any good for a minister to give you hopes where God gives you none? or would you desire him to do so? Why, what would you think of such a minister when those hopes foresake you; or what thanks will you give him when you find yourself in hell? Would you not lie there and curse him for a deciever for ever? I know this to be true, and there I had rather you were displeased with me here, than curse me there. [Richard Baxter]

January 25, 2008 Posted by Deejay | Richard Baxter | | 1 Comment