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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
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.
O foolish miserable souls! (Gal. 3.1.) who hath bewitched your minds into such madness, and your hearts into such a deadness, that you should be such mortal enemies to your selves, and go on so obstinately towards damnation, that neither the word of God, nor the persuasions of men can change your minds, or hold your hands, or stop you till you are past remedy! Well, sinner•! this life will not last always, this patience will not wait upon you still. Do not think that you shall abuse your Maker and Redeemer, and serve his enemies, a•d debase your souls, and trouble the world, and wrong the Church, and reproach the ⟨image 23⟩godly, and grieve your Teachers, and hinder reformation, and all this upon free cost. You know not yet what this must cost you; but you must shortly know, when the righteous God shall take you in hand, who will handle you in another manner then the sharpest Magistrates, or the plainest dealing Pastors did, unless you prevent the everlasting torments by a sound conversion, and i• speedy obeying of the Call of God. He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear, while mercy hath a voice to Call!
O f•ol•sh miserable souls! (Gal. 3.1.) who hath bewitched your minds into such madness, and your hearts into such a deadness, that you should be such mortal enemies to your selves, and go on so obstinately towards damnation, that neither the word of God, nor the perswasions of men can change your minds, or hold your hands, or stop you till you are past remedy! Well, sinner•! this life will not last alwayes, this patience will not wait up•n you still. Do not think that you shall abuse your Maker and Redeemer, and serve his enemies, a•d debase your souls, and trouble the world, and wrong the Church, and reproach the ⟨image 23⟩