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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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3. They are wilfully confident that they need no Conversion, but some partial amendment, but that they are in the way to heaven already, and are Converted when they are not. And if you meet a man that is quite out of his way, you may long enough call on him to turn back again, if he will not believe you that he is out of his way.
4. They are become slaves to their flesh, and drowned in the world to make provision for it. Their lusts, and passions, and appetites have distracted them, and got such an hand over them, that ⟨p. 199⟩they cannot tell how to deny them, nor how to mind any thing else. So that the drunkard saith, I love a cup of good drink, and I cannot forbear it. The glutton saith, I love good •hear, and I cannot forbear. The fornicator saith, I love to have my lust fulfilled, and I cannot forbear. And the gamester loves to have his sports, and he cannot forbear. So that they are become even captivated slays to their flesh, and their […] wilfulness is become an impotency; and what they would not do, they say they cannot. And the worldling is so taken up with earthly things, that he hath neither heart, nor mind, nor time for heavenly: but as in Pharaohs dream, Gen. 41.4. the lean kine did eat up the fat ones; so this lean and barren earth doth eat up all the thoughts of heaven.
4. They are become slaves to their flesh, and drowned in the world to make provision for it. Their lusts, and passions, and appetites have distracted them, and got such an hand over them, that ⟨p. 199⟩they cannot tell how to deny them, nor how to mind any thing else. So that the drunkard saith, I love a cup of good d•ink, and I cannot forbear it. The glutton saith, I love good hear, and I cannot forbear. The fornicator saith, I love to have my lust fulfilled, and I cannot forbear. And the gamester loves to have his sports, and he cannot forbear. So that they are become even captivated slayes to their flesh, and their wilfulness is become an impotency; and what they would not do, they say they cannot. And the worldling is so taken up with earthly things, that he hath neither heart, nor mind, nor time for heavenly: but as in Pharas deam,