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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. 8. I do not th•nk that God cares so much what men think, or speak, or do, as to make so great a matter of it.
Answ. It seems then you take the word of God to be false, and then what will you believe? But your own reason might teach you better, if you believe not the Scriptures: For you see God set not so light by us, but that he vouchsafed to make us, and still preserveth us, and daily upholdeth us, and provideth for us: And will any wise man make a curious frame for nothing? will you make or buy a Clock or Watch, and daily look to it, and not care whether it go true or false? Surely if you believe not a particular eye of providence observing your hearts and ⟨p. 180⟩lives, you cannot believe or expect any particular providence to observe your wants and trouble, to relieve You. And if God had so little cared for you as you imagine, you would never have lived till now: An hundred diseases would have striven which should first destroy you; Yea the Devils would have haunted you, and fetched you away alive, as the great fishes devour the less, and as Ravenous birds and beasts devour others. You cannot think that God made man for no end or use: And if he made him for any, it was sure for himself. And can you think he cares not whether his ends be accomplished, and whether we do the work that we are made for?
Answ. It seems then you take the word of God to be false, and then what will you believe? But your own reason might teach you better, if you believe not the Scriptures: For you see God set not so light by us, but that he vouchsafed to make us, and still preserveth us, and daily upholdeth us, and provideth for us: And will any wise man make a curious frame for nothing? will you make or buy a Clock or Watch, and daily look to it, and not care whether it go true or false? Surely if you believe not a particular eye of providence observing your hearts and ⟨p. 180⟩lives, you cannot believe or expect any paricular providence to observe your wants and trouble, to relieve You. And if God had so little cared for you as you imagine, you would never have lived till now: An hundred diseases would have striven which should first destroy you; Yea the Devils would have haunted you, and fetcht you away alive, as the great fishes devour the less, and as Ravenous birds and beasts devour others. You cannot think that God made man for no end or use: And if he made him for any, it was sure for himself. And can you think he cares not whether his ends be accomplished, and whether we do the work that we are made for?