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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
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The Father's works were, to create us, to rule us, as his rational creatures, by the law of nature, and judge us thereby, and, in mercy, to provide us a redeemer when we are lost, and to send his son, and accept his ransom.
The works of the Son, for us, were these: To ransom and redeem us by his suffering and righteousness, to give out the promise or law of grace, and rule and judge the world as their redeemer on terms of grace, and to make intercession for us, that the benefits of his death may be communicated, and to send the Holy Ghost, (which the Father […] doth by the Son.)
The works of the Son, for us, were these: To ransom and redeem us by his suffering and righteousness, to give out the promise or law of grace, and rule and judge the world as their redeemer on terms of grace, and to make intercession for us, that the benefits of his death may be communicated, and to send the Holy Ghost, (which the Father 〈…〉 doth by the Son.)
The works of the Holy Ghost, for us, are these, To indite the holy scriptures, by inspiring and guiding the apostles and sealing the word, by his miraculous gifts and works, and the illuminating and exciting the ordinary ministers of the gospel, and so enabling them and helping them to publish that word; and by the same word illuminating and converting the souls of men. So that, as you could not have been reasonable creatures if the Father had not created you, nor have had any access to God if the Son had not redeemed you, so neither can you have a part of Christ, or be saved, except the Holy Ghost do sanctify yon.