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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.
No wonder if they will not hear us, that are men, when they will not hear the Lord himself: As God saith, Ezek. iii. 7. when he sent the prophet to the Israelites. ["The house of Israel will not hearken unto thee: For they will not kearken unto me: For all the house of Israel are impudent and heard hearted."] No wonder if they can plead against a minister, or a godly neighbour, when they will plead against the ⟨p. 75⟩Lord himself, even against the plainest passages of his word, and think that they have reason on their side: When they weary the Lord with their words, they say, wherein have we wearied him? Mal. ii. 17. The priest that despised his name, durst ask, "wherein have we despised thy name? and when they polluted his altar, and made the tables of the Lord contemptible, they durst say, wherein have we polluted thee." Mal. i. 6, 7. But, "Woe unto him (saith the Lord) that striveth with his maker! Let the potsherds strive with the potsherds of the earth; shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?" Isa. xiv. 9.
No wonder if they will not hear us, that are men, when they will not hear the Lord himself: As God saith, Ezek. iii. 7. when he sent the prophet to the Israelites. ["The house of Israel will not hearken unto thee: For they will not kearken unto me: For all the house of Israel are impudent and heard hearted."] No wonder if they can plead against a minister, or a godly neighbour, when they will plead against the ⟨p. 75⟩Lord himself, even against the plainest passages of his word, and think that they have reason on their side: When they weary the Lord with their words, they say, wherein have we wearied him? Mal. ii. 17. The priest that despised his name, durst ask, "wherein have we despised thy name? and when they polluted his altar, and made the tables of the Lord contemptible, they durst say, wherein have we polluted thee."