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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.
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?
2. A man is never well in his wits, till he be converted, he never knows God, nor knows sin, nor knows Christ, nor knows the world, nor himself, nor what his business is on earth, so as to set himself about it, till he be converted. The scripture saith, that the wicked are unreasonable men, 2 Thess. iii. 2. and "that the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God," 1 Cor. i. 20. and Luke xv. 17. It is said of the prodigal, "that when he came to himself," he resolved to return. It is a wise world when men will disobey ⟨p. 85⟩God, and run to hell for fear of being out of their wits.