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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
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.
Answ. 1. Is that doing as well as you can, when you will not Turn to God, but your heart is against his holy and diligent service? It is as well as you will indeed: but that's your misery.
Answ. 1. Is that doing as well as you can, when you will not Turn to God, but your heart is against his holy and diligent service? It is as well as you will indeed: but thats your misery.
2. My desire is, that you should Hope and Trust in God: But for what is it that you will Hope? Is it to be saved, if you ⟨p. 185⟩turn and be sanctified? For this you have Gods promise: and therefore hope for it and spare not. But if you Hope to be saved without Conversion and an Holy Life, this is not to Hope in God, but in Satan or your selves. For God hath given you no such promise, but told you the contrary: but its Satan and self-love that made you such promises, and raised you to such Hopes.
Well, If these and such as these be all you have to say against Conversion and an Holy Life, your All is Nothing, and worse then Nothing: And if these and such as these seem Reasons sufficient to persuade you to forsake God, and cast your selves into Hell, the Lord deliver us from such Reasons, and from such blind understandings, and from such senseless hardened hearts. Dare you stand to ever an one ⟨p. 186⟩of these Reasons at the Barr of God? Do you think it will then serve your turn to say, Lord I did not Turn because I had so much to do in the world, or because I did not like the lives of some professors, or because I saw men of so many minds. O how easily will the light of that day confound and shame such reasonings as these? Had you the world to look after? Let the world which you served now pay your wages, and save you if it can? Had you not a better world to look after first? And were you not commanded to seek first Gods Kingdom and Righteousness, and promised, that other things should be added to you?