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Richard Baxter Quotes about Study

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Richard Baxter (2014). “The Reformed Pastor”, p.63, Lulu.com

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.

Richard BAXTER, Rev. William BROWN (M.D., Son of John Brown of Haddington.), Daniel WILSON (Bishop of Calcutta.) (1829). “The Reformed Pastor ... Revised and Abridged by the Rev. William Brown ... With an Introductory Essay, by the Rev. Daniel Wilson. [With a Portrait.]”, p.24

Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.

Richard Baxter (1829). “The Reformed Pastor by R. Baxter”, p.102

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.59

This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

Richard BAXTER, Rev. William BROWN (M.D., Son of John Brown of Haddington.), Daniel WILSON (Bishop of Calcutta.) (1829). “The Reformed Pastor ... Revised and Abridged by the Rev. William Brown ... With an Introductory Essay, by the Rev. Daniel Wilson. [With a Portrait.]”, p.26