N21487:80

A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

Name: A call to the unconverted, to turn and live
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691Philadelphia: printed for Matthew Carey, 1795Philadelphia: printed for Mathew Carey, 1795

v, [1], 7-140, [4] p. ; 14 cm. (18mo) · 45k words · Evans 28243

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A CALL TO THE UNCONVERTED. › Doctrine 2: Doct. 2. It is the promise of GOD, that the wicked shall live, if thoy will but turn, u…

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Here you may safely trust your souls; for the love of God is the fountain of this offer. Job iii. 16. and the blood of the Son of God hath purchased it; the faithfulness and truth of God is engaged to make the promise good; miracles oft sealed up the truth of it; preachers are sent through the world to proclaim it; the sacraments are instituted and used for the solemn delivery of the mercy offered to them that will accept it; and the spirit doth open the heart to entertain it, and is itself the earnest of the full possession. So that the truth of it is past controversy, that the worst of you all, and every one of you, if you will but be converted, may be saved.

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Indeed, if thou will needs believe that you shall be saved without conversion, then you believe a falsehood; and if I should preach that to you, I should preach a lie: This were not to believe God, but the devil and your own deceitful hearts. God hath his promise of life, and the devil hath his promise of life. God's promise is. Return and live. The devil's promise is, You shall live, whether you turn or not. The words of God are as I have showed you. Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven, Matth. xviii. 3. Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John iii. 3, 5. Without holiness none shall see ⟨p. 40⟩God, Heb. xii. 14. The devil's word, You may be saved without being born again and converted; you may do well enough without being holy; God doth but frighten you; he is more merciful than to do as he saith; he will be better to you than his word. And alas, the greatest part of the world believe this word of the devil, before the word of God; just as our first sin and misery came into the world. God saith to our first parents, If ye eat ye shall die: And the devil contradicted him, and saith, Ye shall not die; and the woman believed the devil before God. So now the Lord saith, Turn or die: And the devil saith, You shall not die, if you do but cry God's mercy at last, and give over the acts of sin when you can practice it no longer. And this is the word that the world believes. O heinous wickedness, to believe the devil before God!

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

Philadelphia

Bookseller

Matthew CareyMathew Carey

Year

1795

Size

v, [1], 7-140, [4] p. ; 14 cm. (18mo)

Words

45,243

Catalogue

Evans 28243

Text

Evans-TCP N21487

Passages

344

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Doct. 3. God taketh pleasure in men's conversion and Salvation, but not in their death or damnation; he had rather they would return and live, than go on and die.