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A26872 A call to the unconverted to turn and live and accept of mercy while mercy may be had as ever they would find mercy in the day of their extremity from the living God / by his unworthy servant, Richard Baxter ; to be read in families where any are unconverted. Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1658 (1658) Wing B1196; ESTC R2096 107,933 375

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read over this Book I would intreate you to go alone and ponder a little what you have read and bethink you as in the sight of God whether it be not true and do not neerly touch your souls and whether it be not time for you to look about you And also I intreate you that you will upon your knees beseech the Lord that he will open your eyes to understand the truth and turn your hearts to the Love of God and beg of him all that saving grace that you have so long neglected and follow it on from day to day till your hearts be changed And withall that you will go to your Pastors that are set over you to take care of the health and safety of your souls as Physitians do for the health of your bodies and desire them to direct you what course to take and acquaint them with your spiritual estate that you may have the benefit of their Advice and Ministerial help Or if you have not a faithful Pastor at home make use of some other in so great a need Thirdly When by Reading Consideration Prayer and Ministerial Advice you are once acquainted with your sin and misery with your Duty and Remedy delay not but presently forsake your sinful company and courses and turn to God and obey his Call A● you love your souls take heed that you go not on against so loud a Call of God and against your own knowledge and consciences lest it go worse with you in the day of Iudgement then with Sodom and Gomorrah Enquire of God as a man that is willing to know the truth and not to be a wilful C●eater of his soul. Search the holy Scriptures daily and see whether these things be so or not try impartially whether it be safer to trust to Heaven or Earth and whether it be better follow God or man the Spirit or the flesh and better live in Holiness or sin and whether an unsanctified estate be safe for you to abide in one day longer And when you have found out which is best Resolve accordingly and make your choice without any more ado If you will be true to your own souls and do not love everlasting torments I beseech you as from the Lord that you will but take this reasonable advices O what happy Towns and Countreys and what a happy nation might we have if we could but perswade our neighbours to agree to such a necessary motion What joyful men would all faithful Ministers be if they could but see their people truly heavenly and holy This would be the Vnity the Peace the Safety the glory of our Churches the happiness of our neighbours and the comfort of our souls Then how comfortably should we preach Absolution and Peace to you and deliver the Sacraments which are the Seals of Peace to you And with what Love and Ioy might we live among you At your death-bed how boldly might we comfort and encourage your departing souls and at your Burial how comfortably might we leave you in the grave in expectation to meet your souls in heaven and to see your bodies raised to that glory But if still the most of you will go on in a careless ignorant fleshly wordly or unholy life and all our desires and labours cannot so far prevail as to keep you from the wilful damning of your selves we must then imitate our Lord who delighteth himself in those few that are his jewels and in the little Flock that shall receive the Kingdom when the most shall reap the misery which they sowed In nature excellent things are few The world hath not many Suns or Moons It s but a little of the earth that 's gold or silver Princes and Nobles are but a small part of the Sons of men And it is no great number that are Learned Iudicious or wise here in the world And therefore if the gate being strait and the way narrow there be but few that find salvation yet God will have his glory and pleasure in those few And when Christ shall come with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ his coming will to be glorified in his Saints and admired in all true believers 2 Thes. 1.7 8 9 10. And for the rest as God the Father vouchsafed to create them and God the Son disdained not to bear the penalty of their sins upon the cross and did not judge such suffering vain though he knew that by refusing the Sanctification of the Holy Ghost they would finally destroy themselves so we that are his Ministers though these be not gathered judge not our labour wholly lost see Isa 49 5. Reader I have done with thee when thou hast perused this Book but sin hath not yet done with thee even those that thou thoughtest had been forgotten long ago and Satan hath not yet done with thee though now he be out of sight and God hath not yet done with thee because thou wilt not be perswaded to have done with the deadly reigning sin I have written thee this perswasive as one that is going into another world where the things are seen that here I speak of and as one that knoweth thou must be shortly there thy self As ever thou wilt meet me with Comfort before the Lord that made us as ever thou wilt escape the everlasting plagues prepared for the final neglecters of salvation and for all that are not sanctified by the Holy Ghost and love not the communion of the Saints as members of the Holy Catholick Church and as ever thou hopest to see the face of Christ thy Iudge and of the Majesty of the Father with Peace and Comfort and to be received into glory when thou art turned naked out of this world I beseech thee I charge thee to hear and obey the Call of God and Resolvedly to Turn that thou maist Live But if thou Wilt not even when thou hast no true Reason for it but Because thou wilt not I summon thee to answer ' it before the Lord and require thee there to bear me witness that I gave thee warning and that thou wast not condemned for want of a Call to Turn and Live but because thou wouldst not believe it and obey it which also must be the Testimony of Thy serious Monitor Rich. Baxter Decemb. 11. 1657. The Contents A Preface to the Unsanctified exhorting them to turn and answering some Objections The text opened p. 1. to 9. Doct. 1. It is the unchangeable Law of God that wicked men must Turn or Die p. 9. Proved p. 11. Obj. God will not be so unmerciful as to Damn us Answered p. 14 15. The Use p. 22. Who are wicked men and what Conversion is and how we may know whether we are wicked or Converted p. 27. to p. 45. Applyed p. 45. to p. 70. Doct. 2. It is the Promise of God that the wicked shall live if they will