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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.
DIRECTION II.
IF you will be converted and saved, be much in secret serious consideration. Inconsiderateness undoes the world. Withdraw yourselves oft into retired secrecy, and there bethink you of the end why you were made, of the life you have ⟨p. 135⟩lived, the time you have lost, the sin you have committed, of the love and sufferings, and fullness of Christ, of the danger you are in, of the nearness of death and judgment; and of the certainty and excellency of the joys of heaven, and of the certainty and terror of the torment of hell, and eternity of both, and of the necessity of conversion and a holy life. Steep your hearts in such considerations as these.
IF you will be converted and saved, be much in secret serious consideration. Inconsiderateness undoes the world. Withdraw yourselves oft into retired secrecy, and there bethink you of the end why you were made, of the life you have ⟨p. 135⟩lived, the time you have lost, the sin you have committed, of the love and sufferings, and fulness of Christ, of the danger you are in, of the nearness of death and judgment; and of the certainty and excellency of the joys of heaven, and of the certainty and terror of the torment of hell, and eternity of both, and of the necessity of conversion and a holy life. Steep your hearts in such considerations as these.