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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.
Behold, sinners, we are sent here, as the messengers of the Lord, to set before you life and death: What say you? Which of them will you choose? Christ standeth as it were, by thee, with heaven in the one hand, and hell in the other, and offereth thee thy choice, which wilt thou choose? The voice of the Lord maketh the rocks to tremble. Psal. xxvi. And is it nothing to hear him threaten thee, if thou wilt not turn? Dost thou not understand and feel this voice, turn ye, turn ye, why-will you die? Why? It is the voice of love, of infinite love, of thy best and kindest friend, as thou mightest easily perceive by the motion, and yet canst thou neglect it? It is the voice of pity and compassion. The Lord seeth whither thou art going, better than thou dost, which makes him call after thee, turn. turn.—He feeth what will become of thee, if thou turn not: He thinketh with himself; Ah! this poor sinner will cast himself ⟨p. 69⟩into endless torments if he do not turn: I must in justice deal with him according to my righteous law. And, therefore, he calleth after thee, turn, turn. O sinner! If you did but know the thousandth part as well as God doth, the danger that is near you, and the misery that you are running into, we shall have no more need to call after you to turn.
Behold, sinners, we are sent here, as the messengers of the Lord, to set before you life and death: What say you? Which of them will you choose? Christ standeth as it were, by thee, with heaven in the one hand, and hell in the other, and offereth thee thy choice, which wilt thou choose? The voice of the Lord maketh the rocks to tremble. Psal. xxvi. And is it nothing to hear him threaten thee, if thou wilt not turn? Dost thou not understand and feel this voice, turn ye, turn ye, wky-will you die? Why? It is the voice of love, of infinite love, of thy best and kindest friend, as thou mightest easily perceive by the motion, and yet canst thou neglect it? It is the voice of pity and compassion. The Lord seeth whither thou art going, better than thou dost, which makes him call after thee, turn. turn.—He feeth what will become of thee, if thou turn not: He thinketh with himself; Ah! this poor sinner will cast himself ⟨p. 69⟩