A26872:256
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
A CALL TO THE Unconverted. › Use.A CALL TO THE Unconverted. › Vse.
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. 6. But I mean nobody any harm, nor do no harm: and why then should God condemn me?
Answ. Is it no harm to neglect the Lord that made thee, and the ⟨p. 176⟩work for which thou camest into the world, and to prefer the creature before the Creator, and to neglect the grace that is daily offered there? It is the depth of thy sinfulness to be so insensible of it: The dead feel not that they are dead. If once thou wert made alive, thou wouldst see more amiss in thy self, and marvel at thy self for making so light of it.
Answ. Is it no harm to neglect the Lord that made thee, and the ⟨p. 176⟩work for which thou camest into the world, and to prefer the creature before the Creator, and to neglect the grace that is daily offered there? It is the depth of thy sinfulness to be so insensible of it: The dead feel not that they are dead. If once thou wert made alive, thou wouldst see more amiss in thy self, and marvell at thy self for making so light of it.
Object. 7. I think you would make men mad under pretence of Converting them: It is enough to rack the brains of simple people to muse so much on matters too high for them.