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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.
Object. 4. I do not see that Professors are any better then other men; They will over-reach, and oppress, and are as Covetous as any.
Answ. Whatever hypocrites are, its not so with those that are sanctified. God hath thousands and thousands that are otherwise: Though the malicious world doth accuse them of what they can never prove, and of that which never entered into their hearts. And commonly they charge them with heart-sins, which none can see but God; because they can charge them with no such wickedness in their lives, as they are guilty of themselves.
Answ. Whatever hypocrites are, its not so with those that are sanctified. God hath thousands and thousands that are otherwise: Though the malicious world doth accuse them of what they can never prove, and of that which never entred into their hearts. And commonly they charge them with heart-sins, which none can see but God; because they can charge them with no such wickedness in their lives, as they are guilty of themselves.
Object. 5. But I am no whoremonger, nor drunkard, nor oppressor, and therefore why should you call upon me to be Converted?
Answ. As if you were not born after the flesh, and had not lived after the flesh as well as other Is it not as great a sin as any of these, for a man to have an earthly mind, and to love the world above God, and to have an unbelieving unhumbled heart? Nay, let me tell you more: that many persons that avoid disgraceful sins, are as fast glued to the world, and as much slaves to the flesh, and as strange to God, and a verse to heaven in their more civil course, as others are in their more shameful notorious sins.