Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures. Direct. 3
Remember that it is the will and testament of your Lord, and the covenant of most full and gracious promises; which all your comforts, and all your hopes of pardon and everlasting life are built upon. Read it therefore with love and great delight. Value it a thousand fold more than you would do the letters of your dearest friend, or the deeds by which you hold your lands; or any thing else of low concernment. If the law was sweeter to David than honey, and better than thousands of gold and silver, and was his delight and meditation all the day, O what should the sweet and precious Gospel be to us!
From A Body of Practical Divinity, or A Christian Directory, Vol. 3.
(…to be continued)
Wings of the Wind 
Amen 🙌
Thanks for this quote from Baxter in great appreciation of Scripture. We Christians often take our Bibles for granted.
You’re welcome, Tom, and thank for your comment. We certainly do take our Bibles for granted at times. The older I get the more amazing it is to me but I still have to ask myself every so often if I am continuing to learn. The Bible is a complete work but it is endless, as you well know, and can never be close to being completely digested.
“Value it a thousand fold more than….” So very true!!
I liked that part of the quote too, Cathy.
TY
YW 🙂
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We are very blessed to live in a nation that still allows us to have God’s word
Yes, we are very blessed. I would be lost without His Word.