The Well is Deep

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow...
R. Baxter "the Reformed Pastor"

Truth Loves Light

All our teaching must be as plain and simple as possible. This doth suit a teacher's ends. He that would be understood must speak to the capacity of his hearers. Truth loves light, and is most beautiful when most naked.
R. Baxter "the Reformed Pastor"

Reverence

Reverence is that affection of the soul which proceedeth from deep apprehensions of God and indicateth a mind much conversant with him.
R. Baxter "the Reformed Pastor"

Baxter's "Anger Management"

"Uncontrolled Anger injures humanity and rebels against reason. It is without reason and against reason. All passion should be under the control of reason. It is madness, and like the crime of drunkenness, to suppress and dethrone our reason. Sinful anger is temporary madness or drunkenness, since our reason is set aside. Remember that you are a man, and that it is a dishonour to yield to fury like and animal... If you have allowed your passion to break out and to offend or wrong others, by word or by deed, freely and speedily confess it to them, and ask them for forgiveness. In confessing your fault, you may wish to warn others not to follow your bad example. This will do much to clear your conscience and preserve your brother. It will also help to overcome the effect of your anger, and motivate you to avoid this sin in the future. If you are so proud that you will not do this, do not say that you cannot help your anger, but rather that you are unwilling to do so. A good heart will not think this too difficult a remedy against any sin." pp 11,38
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Baxter on Nature

"...nature must be read as one of God’s books, which is purposely written for the revelation of himself. The Holy Scripture is the easier book: when you have first learned from it God, and his will, as to the most necessary things, address yourselves to the study of his works, and read every creature as a Christian and a divine. If you see not yourselves, and all things, as living, and moving, and having being in God, you see nothing, whatever you think you see." Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor