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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 IV.
BETAKE yourselves to God in a course of earnest constant prayer. Confess and lament your former lives, and beg his grace to illuminate and convert you. Beseech him to pardon what is past, and to give you his spirit, and ⟨p. 136⟩change your hearts and lives, and lead you in his ways, and save you from temptation, and ply his work daily, and be not weary of it.
DIRECTION V.
PRESENTLY give over your known and wilful sins. Make a stand, and go that way no further. Be drunk no more, but avoid the very occasion of it. Cast away your lusts and sinful pleasures with detestation. Curse, and swear, and rail no more, and if you have wronged any, restore as Zaccheus did; if you will commit again your old sius, what blessing can you expect on the means for conversion?