Richard Baxter (November 12, 1615-December 8, 1691) was an English nonconformist chaplain and scholar. In his work, Poetical Fragments-Love Breathing Thanks and Praise, 1681, Richard Baxter wrote:
<I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.> 1615RB001
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1615RB001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Richard Baxter, 1681, in his work titled, Poetical Fragments-Love Breathing Thanks and Praise. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 294.