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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. 10. There are so many ways and Religions that we know not which to be of, and therefore we will be even as we are.
Object. 10. There are so many waies and Religions that we know not which to be of, and therefore we will be even as we are.
Answ. Because there are many, will you be of that way that you may be sure is wrong? None are further out of the way, then worldly, fleshly, Unconverted sinners. For they do not only err in this or that opinion, as many sects ⟨p. 183⟩do, but in the very scope and drift of their lives. If you were going a journey that your life lay on, would you stop or turn again, because you met with some cross ways, or because you saw some travellers go the horse way, and some the foot way, and some perhaps break over the hedge, yea and some miss the way? or would you not rather be the more careful to enquire the way? If you have some servants that know not how to do your work right, and some that are unfaithful, would you take it well at any of the rest that would therefore be idle and do you no service because they see the rest so bad?
Answ. Because there are many, will you be of that way that you may be sure is wrong? None are further out of the way, then worldly, fleshly, Unconverted sinners. For they do not only err in this or that opinion, as many sects ⟨p. 183⟩do, but in the very scope and drift of their lives. If you were going a journey that your life lay on, would you stop or turn again, because you met with some cross waies, or because you saw some travellers go the horse way, and some the foot way, and some perhaps break over the hedge, yea and some miss the way? or would you not rather be the more careful to enquire the way? If you have some servants that know not how to do your work right, and some that are unfaithful, would you take it well at any of the rest that would therefore be idle and do you no service because they see the rest so bad?