Old Paths in Portrait

“If thou be not a stranger to the Spirit of grace, or a neglecter of His daily motions, and persuasions, and operations on thy heart, the attendance and improvement of them will keep thy thoughts from rusty idleness and vagrant remorse. It is not a small matter to be daily entertaining so noble a guest, and daily observing the offers and motions of so great a Benefactor; and daily receiving the gifts of so bountiful a Lord; and daily accepting His necessary helps, and daily observing the saving precepts of so great and beneficent a God. If you know how insufficient you are without Him, to will or to do, to perform, or to think, or purpose any good, and that all your sufficiency is of Him. If you knew that it is the great skill and diligence requisite in all that will sail successively to the desired haven of rest, to know the winds of the Spirit’s help, and to set all your sails to the right improvement of them, to bestir you while such gales continue, you would find greater work than wandering for your thoughts.” 

-Richard Baxter  English Puritan Minister  1615-1691

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