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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
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Object. 4. I do not see that professors are any better than other men; they will over reach, and oppress, and are as covetous as any.
Answ. Whatever hypocrites are, it is not so with those that are sanctified. God hath thousands, or ten thousands that are otherwise, tho' the malicious world doth accuse them of what they can never prove, and of that which never entered into their hearts; and commonly they charge them with heart sins, which none can see but God, because they can charge them with no such wickedness in their lives, as they are guilty of themselves.
Object. 5. But I am no whoremonger, nor drunkard, nor oppressor; and therefore why should you call upon me to be converted.?
Answ. As if you were not born after the flesh, and had not lived after the flesh as well as others! Is it not as great a sin as any of these, for a man to have an earthly mind, and to love the world above God, and to have an unbelieving unhumbled heart? Nay, let me tell you more, that many persons that avoid disgraceful sins, are as f•st glued to the world, and as much slaves to the ⟨p. 84⟩