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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.
On the other side, a converted man is illuminated to discern the loveliness of God, and so fa• believeth the glory that is to be had with God, tha• his heart is taken up to it, and set more upon i• than on any thing in this world. He had rather s•• the face of God, and live in his everlasting love and praises, than have all the wealth or pleasure o• the world. He seeth that all things else are vanity and nothing but God can fill the soul; and, there fore, let the world go which way it will, he laye• up his treasures and hopes in heaven, and for th•• he is resolved to let go all. As the fire doth mou•• upwards, and the needle that is touched with th• lodestone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined unto God. Nothing else can satisfy him; nor can he find any content and rest but in hi• love. In a word, all that ere converted do esteem and love God better than all the world, and th•• heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their flesh prosperity. The proof of what I have said you m•• find in these places of scripture, Phil. iii. 18, 21 Matt. vi. 19, 20, 21. Col. iii. 1, 2, 3, 4. Rom. viii. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 18, 23, Psal, lxxiii, 25, 26.
On the other side, a converted man is illuminated to discern the loveliness of God, and so fa• believeth the glory that is to be had with God, tha• his heart is taken up to it, and set more upon i than on any thing in this world. He had rather s the face of God, and live in his everlasting love and praises, than have all the wealth or pleasure o the world. He seeth that all things else are vanity and nothing but God can fill the soul; and, there fore, let the world go which way it will, he laye up his treasures and hopes in heaven, and for th he is resolved to let go all. As the fire doth mou upwards, and the needle that is touched with th loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined unto God. Nothing else can satisfy him; nor can he find any content and rest but in hi love. In a word, all that ere converted do estee and love God better than all the world, and th heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their flesh prosperity. The proof of what I have said you m find in these places of scripture,