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 Richard Baxter

The eternal God, who made you for a life everlasting, and has redeemed you by His only Son, when you had lost it and yourselves, being mindful of you in your sin and misery, has put the gospel in writing, and sealed it by His spirit, and commanded His ministers to preach it to the world, freely offering you pardon, and setting heaven before you, so that He might call you from your fleshly pleasures, and from following after this deceitful world, and acquaint you with the life that you were created and redeemed for, before you are dead and beyond help. The Lord saw how you forget Him and your destiny, and how you make light of eternal things, and do not understand the judgment to come. He sees how bold you are in your sin, and how careless of your souls, and how the works of the ungodly are in your lives, while the belief of Christians is in your mouths. He sees the dreadful day at hand, when your sorrows will begin and you must lament all this with hopeless cries in torment and desperation; and then the memory of your folly will tear your hearts, unless true conversion now prevents it.