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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.
8. Moreover, it is the voice of every affliction, to call thee to make haste and turn. Sickness and pain, cry, turn; and poverty, and loss of friends, and every twig of the chastising rod. cry, turn, and yet wilt thou not hearken to the call? These have come near thee, and made thee feel; they have made thee groan, and can they not make thee turn.?
9. The very frame of thy nature, and being itself, bespeaketh thy return: Why hast thou reason, but to rule thy flesh, and serve thy Lord? Why hast thou an understanding soul but to learn, and know his will, and do it? Why hast thou an heart within thee, that can love and fear, and desire, but that thou shouldst fear him, and love him, and desire after him?
9. The very frame of thy nature, and being itself, bespeaketh thy return: Why hast thou reason, but to rule thy flesh, and serve thy Lord? Why hast thou an understanding soul but to l•arn, and know his will, and do it? Why hast thou an heart within thee, that can love and fear, and desire, but that thou shouldst fear him, and love him, and desire after him?
10. Yea, thine own engagements, by promise, to the Lord, do call upon thee to turn, and serve him. Thou hast bound thyself to him by a baptismal covenant, and renounced the world, the flesh and the devil: This thou hast confirmed, by the profession of Christianity, and renewed it at sacraments, and in times of affliction; and wilt thou promise and vow, and never perform, and turn to God?