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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.
DIRECTION X.
IF you will Turn and Live, do it Resolvedly, and stand not still deliberating, as if it were a doubtful case. Stand not wavering as if you were yet uncertain, whether God or the flesh be the better Master: or whether Heaven or Hell be the better End; or whether sin or holiness be the better way. But away with your former lusts, and presently, habitually, fixedly Resolve: Be not one day of one mind, and ⟨p. 283⟩the next of another; but be at a point with all the world, and Resolvedly give up your selves and all you have to God. Now while you are reading or hearing this Resolve. Before you sleep another night Resolve. Before you stir from the place Resolve. Before Satan have time to take you off, Resolve. You never Turn indeed till you do Resolve; and that with a firm unchangeable Resolution.
So much for the Directions.
AND now I have done my part in this work, that you may Turn at the Call of God and Live. What will become of it, I cannot tell. I have cast the seed at Gods command; but it is not in my power to give the increase. I can go no further with ⟨p. 284⟩