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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 X.
IF you will turn and live, do it resolvedly, and stand not still deliberating, as if it were a doubtful case. Stand not wavering, as if you were yet uncertain whether God or the flesh be the better master, or whether heaven and hell be the better end, or whether sin or holiness be the better way. ⟨p. 139⟩But away with your former lusts, and presently, habitually, fixedly resolve: Be not one day of one mind, and the next of another, but be at a point with all the world, and resolvedly give up yourselves and all that you have to God. Now while you are reading or hearing this, resolve; before you sleep another night, resolve; before you stir from the place, resolve; before Satan hath time to take you off, resolve. You never turn indeed till you do resolve, and that with a firm and unchangeable resolution.
So much for the directions.
AND now I have done my part in this work, that you may turn to the call of God and live. What will become of it, I cannot tell. I have cast the seed at God's command; but it is not in my power to give the increase. I cannot go any further with my message; I cannot bring it to your heart, nor make it work; I cannot do your parts for you, to entertain it and consider it; nor I cannot do God's part by opening your hearts to cause you to entertain it; nor can I show you heaven or hell to your eye sight, nor give you new and tender hearts. If I knew what more to do for your conversion, I hope I should do it.