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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. 6. But I mean no body any harm, nor do no harm; and why then should God condemn me?
Answ. Is it no harm to neglect the Lord that made thee, and the work for which thou camest into the world, and to prefer the creature before the Creator, and to neglect grace that is daily offered thee? It is the depth of thy sinfulness to be so insensible of it, the dead feel not that they are dead. If once thou wert made alive, thou wouldest see more amiss in thyself, and marvel at thyself for making so light of it.
Object. 7. I think you would make men mad, under pretence of converting them; it is enough to rack the brains of sinful people to muse so much on matters so high for them.
Answ. 1. Can you be madder than you are already, or, at least, can there be a more dangerous madness than to neglect your everlasting welfare, and wilfully undo yourselves?