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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.
1. One saith, If none shall be saved but such Converted and Sanctified ones as you talk of, then heaven would be but empty; then God help a great many.
Answ. What! it seems you think that God doth not know, or else that he is not to be believed! Measure not all by your selves; God hath thousands and millions of his sanctified ones: but yet they are few in comparison of the world, as Christ himself hath told us, Matthew 7.13, 14. Luke 12.32. It better beseems you to make that use of this truth which Christ teacheth you; Strive to enter in at the strait gate; for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way ⟨p. 173⟩that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it; but wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many they be that go in thereat.] Luke 13.22, 23, 24. [Fear not little flock (saith Christ to his sanctified ones) for it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom, Luke 12 32.
Object. 2. I am sure if such as I go to Hell, we shall have store of company.