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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. Because they will go the way that leads to hell; though they are told by God and man, whither it goes, and whither it ends, and though God hath so often professed in his word, that if they hold on in that way, they shall be condemned; and that they shall not be saved, unless they turn. Isa. xlviii. 22. and lvii. 21. There is no peace (saith the Lord) unto the wicked, Isa. lix. 8. The way of peace they know not; there is no judgment in their goings; they have made them crocked paths: Whosoever goeth therein shall not keep peace. They have the word, and the oath of the living God for it, that if they will not turn, they shall not enter into his rest. And yet wicked they are, and wicked they will be, let God and man say what they will; fleshy they are, and fleshy they will be: Worldlings ⟨p. 72⟩they are, and worldlings they will be, though God hath told them that the love of the world is enmity to God, and that if any man love the world, (in that measure) the love of the father is not in him, Jam. iv. 4.1 John ii. 15. so that consequently these men are willing to be damned, though not directly; they are willing of the way to hell, and love the certain cause of their torment; though they be not willing of hell itself, and do not love the pain which they must endure.
1. Because they will go the way that leads to hell; though they are told by God and man, whither it goes, and whither it ends, and though God hath so often professed in his word, that if they hold on in that way, they shall be condemned; and that they shall not be saved, unless they turn. Isa. xlviii. 22. and lvii. 21. There is no peace (saith the Lord) unto the wicked, Isa. lix. 8. The way of peace they know not; there is no judgment in their goings; they have made them crocked paths: Whosoever goeth therein shall not keep peace. They have the word, and the oath of the living God for it, that if they will not turn, they shall not enter into his rest. And yet wicked they are, and wicked they will be, let God and man say what they will; leshy they are, and fleshy they will be: Worldlings