A26872:374
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.
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⟩my message: I cannot bring it to your hearts, not make it work. I cannot do your parts for your, to entertain it and consider of it Nor I cannot do Gods part, by opening your heart• to cause you to entertain it: Nor can I show you Heaven or Hell to your eye-sight, nor give you new and tender hearts. If I knew what more to do for your Conversion, I hope I should do it
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⟩my message: I cannot bring it to your hearts, not make it work. I cannot do your parts for your, to entertain it and consider of it Nor I cannot do Gods part, by opening your heart• to cause you to entertain it: Nor can I shew you Heaven or Hell to your eye-sight, nor give you new and tender hearts. If I knew what more to do for your Conversion, I hope I should do it
But […] thou that art the gracious Father of Spirits, that hast sworn th•n delightest not in the death of the wicked, but rather that they Turn and Live, deny not thy blessing to the•e Persuasions and Directions; and suffer not thine enemies to triumph in thy sight; and the great deceiver of souls, to prevail against the Son, thy Spirit, and thy Word. O pity poor Unconverted sinners, that have not hearts to pity or help themselves. Command the blind ⟨p. 285⟩