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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.
Answ. It seems then, you take the word of God to be false, and then what will you believe? But your own reason might teach you better, if you believe not the scriptures, for you see God sets not so light by us, but that he vouchsafed to make us, and still preserveth us, and daily upholdeth us, and provideth for us, and will any wise man make a curious frame for nothing? Will you make, or buy a clock or watch, and daily look to it, and not care whether it go true or false? Surely, if you believe not a particular eye of Providence observing your hearts and lives, you cannot believe, or expect any particular Providence to observe your wants and troubles, or to relieve you; and if God had so little care for you as you imagine, you would never have lived till now, an hundred diseases would have striven which should first destroy you; yea, the devils would have haunted you, and fetched you away alive, as the great fishes devour the less, and as ravenous beasts and birds devour others. You cannot think that God made man for no end or use, and if he made him for any, it was sure for himself; and can you think he cares not whether his end be accomplished, and whether we do the worst that we are made for.
Answ. It seems then, you take the word of God to be false, and then what will you believe? But your own reason might teach you better, if you believe not the scriptures, for you see God sets not so light by us, but that he vouchsaved to make us, and still preserveth us, and daily upholdeth us, and provideth for us, and will any wise man make a curious frame for nothing? Will you make, or buy a clock or watch, and daily look to it, and not care whether it go true or false? Surely, if you believe not a particular eye of Providence observing your hearts and lives, you cannot believe, or expect any particular Providence to observe your wants and tronbles, or to relieve you; and if God had so little care for you as you imagine, you would never have lived till now, an hundred diseases would have striven which should first destroy you; yea, the devils would have haunted you, and fetched you away alive, as the great fishes devour the less, and as ravenous beasts and birds devour others. You cannot think that God made man for no end or use, and if he made him for any, it was sure for himself; and can you think he cares not whether his end be accomplished, and whether we do the worst that we are made for.