“In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.”

—  Richard Baxter

The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The People Who Receive the Saints' Rest"

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

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