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A call to the unconverted, to turn and live
A call to the unconverted, to turn and live; and accept of mercy, while mercy may be had; as they ever would find mercy, in the day of extremity from the living God. / By his unworthy servant, Richard Baxter.
Philadelphia: printed for Matthew Carey, 1795Philadelphia: printed for Mathew Carey, 1795
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.
1. The devil indeed takes pleasure in your […] and death: For this is the very end of all his temp••• tions; for this he watches night and day; you ca• not devise to please him better than to go on in si•• How glad is he when he sees thee going into •• alehouse, or other sin, and when he heareth th•• curse, or swear, or rail? How glad is he when […] heareth thee revile the minister that would dr••• thee from thy sin, and help to save thee? The•• are his delight. 2. The wicked are also delighted in it, for it agreeable to their nature. 3. But I know, for all this, that it is not […] pleasing of the devil, that you intend, even wh••• you please him; but it is your own flesh, the gre••• est and most dangerous enemy that you intend […] please; it is the flesh that would be pampered, th•• would be pleased in meat and drink, and clothing that would be pleased in your company, and plea•• in applause and credit with the world, and plea•• in sports and lusts, and idleness; this is the gul••• that devoureth all. This is the very God that […] serve (for the scripture saith of such, that th••• bellies are their gods, Phil. iii. 18.) But I beseem you stay a little, and consider the business.
1. The devil indeed takes pleasure in your 〈…〉 and death: For this is the very end of all his temp••• tions; for this he watches night and day; you ca• not devise to please him better than to go on in si•• How glad is he when he sees thee going into alehouse, or other sin, and when he heareth th curse, or swear, or rail? How glad is he when heareth thee revile the minister that would dr thee from thy sin, and help to save thee? The are his delight. 2. The wicked are also delighted in it, for it agreeable to their nature. 3. But I know, for all this, that it is not pleasing of the devil, that you intend, even wh you please him; but it is your own flesh, the gre est and most dangerous enemy that you intend please; it is the flesh that would be pampered, th would be pleased in meat and drink, and cloathin that would be pleased in your company, and plea in applause and credit with the world, and plea in sports and lusts, and idleness; this is the gul that devoureth all. This is the very God that serve (for the scripture saith of such, that th bellies are their gods,