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A Call to the Unconverted

Name: A Call to the Unconverted
Author: Richard Baxter

A call to the unconverted to turn and live and accept of mercy while mercy may be had as ever they would find mercy in the day of their extremity from the living God / by his unworthy servant, Richard Baxter ; to be read in families where any are unconverted.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658

[70], 285, [2] p. · 54k words · Wing B1196 · ESTC R2096

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A CALL TO THE Unconverted. › Doctrine 2: Doct. 2. IT is the Promise of God, that the wicked shall Live if they will but Turn; Un…A CALL TO THE Unconverted. › Doctrine 2: Doct. 2. IT is the Promise of God, that the wicked shall Live if they will but Turn; Vn…

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And we are not only to offer you Life; but to show you the Grounds on which we do it, and call you to believe that God doth mean indeed as he speaks: that the Promise is true, and extendeth Conditionally to you as well as others, and that Heaven is no fancy, but a true felicity.

And we are not only to offer you Life; but to shew you the Grounds on which we do it, and call you to believe that God doth mean indeed as he speaks: that the Promise is true, and extendeth Conditionally to you as well as others, and that Heaven is no fancy, but a true felicity.

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If you ask where is our Commission for this offer; among an hundred Texts of Scripture, I will show it you in these few.

If you ask where is our Commission for this offer; among an hundred Texts of Scripture, I will shew it you in these few.

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First, you see it here in my Text, and the following verses, and in the 18. of Ezek. as plain as can be spoken. And in 2 Cor. 5.17, 18, 19, 20, 21. you have the very sum of our Commission, [If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are past away; behold all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath ⟨p. 76⟩reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the Ministry of Reconciliation, to wit, that God was in Christ Reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and hath committed unto us the word of Reconciliation: now then we are Ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christs stead, be ye reconciled unto God; for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, tha we might be made the Righteousness of God in him.] So

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Printer

R.W.

Bookseller

Nevil Simmons

Year

1658

Size

[70], 285, [2] p.

Words

54,274

Catalogue

Wing B1196 · ESTC R2096

Text

EEBO-TCP A26872

Passages

375

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Doct. 3. GOD taketh Pleasure in mens Conversion and Salvation: but not in their Death or Damnation: he had rather they would Return and Live, then go on and die.