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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.
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.
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 shew 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.
But O thou that art the gracious Father of Spirits, thou hast sworn thou delightest not in the death of the wicked, but rather that they would turn and live; deny not thy blessings to these persuasions and directions, and suffer not thine enemies to triumph in thy sight, and the great deceiver of souls to prevail against thy Son, thy Spirit, and thy Word. O pity poor unconverted ⟨p. 140⟩sinners, that have no hearts to pity or help themselves; Command the blind to see, and the deaf to hear, and the dead to live, and let not sin and death be able to resist thee. Awaken the secure, resolve the unresolved, confirm the wavering, and let the eyes of sinners that read these lines, be next employed in weeping over their sins, and bring them to themselves, and to thy Son, before their sins have brought them to perdition. If thou say but the word, these poor endeavours shall prosper to the winning of many a soul to their everlasting joy, and thine everlasting glory. Amen.