“And therefore you must know that you can forfeit the grace and help of God by your willful sinning or negligence, though you cannot, without grace, turn to God. If you will not do what you can, it is just with God to deny you that grace by which you might do more.”

—  Richard Baxter, book A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live

A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Preface.

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English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer 1615–1691

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