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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I beseech you now let this word come nearer to your hearts. As you are convinced that you have no Reason to destroy your selves, so tell me what Reason have you to refuse to Turn, and live to God? What Reason hath the veriest worldling, or drunkard, or ignorant careless sinner of you all, why you should not be as holy as any you know, and be as careful for your souls as any other. Will not hell be as hot to you as to others? Should not your own souls be as dear to you as theirs to them? Hath not God as much authority over you? Why then will you not become a sanctified people as well as they?
I beseech you now let this word come nearer to your hearts. As you are convinced that you have no Reason to destroy your selves, so tell me what Reason have you to refuse to Turn, and live to God? What Reason hath the veriest worldling, or drunkard, or ignorant careless sinner of you all, why you should not be as holy as any you know, and be as carefull for your souls as any other. Will not hell be as hot to you as to others? Should not your own souls be as dear to you as theirs to them? Hath not God as much authority over you? Why then will you not become a sanctified people as well as they?
O Sirs, when God bringeth the matter down to the very Principles of nature, and shows you that you have no more reason to be ungodly, then you have to damn your own souls; if yet you will not ⟨p. 171⟩understand and Turn, it seems a Desperate case that you are in.
O Sirs, when God bringeth the matter down to the very Principles of nature, and shews you that you have no more reason to be undgodly, then you have to damn your own souls; if yet you will not ⟨p. 171⟩understand and Turn, it seems a Desperate case that you are in.