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A Call to the Unconverted
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.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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LOOK up your best and strongest Reasons, sinners, if you will make good your way; You see now with whom you have to deal. What sayest thou, Unconverted sensual wretch? Darest thou venture upon a dispute with God? Art thou able to confute him? Art thou ready to enter the lists? God asketh thee, Why wilt thou die? Art thou furnished with a sufficient answer? Wilt thou undertake to prove that God is mistaken, and that thou art in the right? O what an undertaking is that! Why, either he or you is mistaken, when he is for your Conversion, and you are against it; He calls upon you to Turn, and you will not; He bids you do it presently, even to day, while it is called ⟨p. 161⟩to day, and you delay, and think it time enough hereafter. He saith, it must be a total change, and you must be holy, and new creatures, and born again; and you think that less may serve the turn, and that its enough to patch up the old man, without becoming New. Who is in the right now? God or you? God calleth on you to Turn and to Live an holy Life; and you will not; by your disobedient lives, it appears you will not. If you will, why do you not? Why have you not done it all this while? and why do you not fall upon it yet? Your Wills have the command of your lives. We may certainly conclude that you are unwilling to turn when you do not Turn. And why will you not? Can you give any Reason for it that is worthy to be called a Reason?
LOOK up your best and strongest Reasons, sinners, if you will make good your way; You see now with whom you have to deal. What saist thou, Unconverted sensual wretch? Darest thou venture upon a dispute with God? Art thou able to confute him? Art thou ready to enter the lists? God asketh thee, Why wilt thou die? Art thou furnished with a sufficient answer? Wilt thou undertake to prove that God is mistaken, and that thou art in the right? O what an undertaking is that! Why, either he or you is mistaken, when he is for your Conversion, and you are against it; He calls upon you to Turn, and you will not; He bids you do it presently, even to day, while it is called