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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.
2. I suppose you will confess that the promise of an endless and unconceivable glory is not unsuitable to the wisdom of God, or the case of man. And why then should you not think so of the Threatening of an endless and unspeakable misery?
2. I suppose you will confess that the promise of an endless and unconceivable glory is not unsuitable to the wisdom of God, or the case of man. And why then should you not think so of the Threatning of an endless and unspeakable misery?
3. When you find it in the Word of God that so it is, and so it will be, do you think your selves fit to contradict this Word? Will you call your Maker to the Barr? and examine his Word upon the accusation of falsehood? will you sit upon him and judge him by the Law of your Conceits? Are you wiser, and better, and righteouser then he? Must the God of heaven ⟨p. 17⟩come to School to you to learn wisdom? Must infinite wisdom learn of folly? and infinite Goodness be corrected by a swinish sinner, that cannot keep himself an hour clean? Must the Almighty stand at the Bar of a worm? Oh horrid arrogancy of senseless dust! Shall every mole, or cold, or dung-hill, accuse the Sun of darkness, and undertake to illuminate the world? Where were you when the Almighty made these Laws, that he did not call you to his counsel? Surely he made them before you were born, without desiring your advice: and you come into the world too late for to reverse them: if you could have done so great a work, you should have stepped out of your Nothingness, and have contradicted Christ when he was on earth, or Moses before him, or have saved A•am and his sinful progeny from the ⟨p. 18⟩threatened death, that so there might have been no need of Christ! And what if God withdraw his patience and sustentation, and let you drop into Hell while you are quarrelling with his Word, will you then believe that there is a Hell?