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A Call to the Unconverted; To Which Are Added, Several Valuable Essays
A Call to the Unconverted To Which Are Added Several Valuable Essays Author:Richard Baxter General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1829 Original Publisher: Lincoln and Edmands Subjects: Conversion Salvation Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Theology / Soteriology Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no il... more »lustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: But the present refusal hardens you against the power and tenderness of the future invitation. This is. the fact in human nature to which these passages seem to point, and it is the fact through which the argument for immediate repentance receives such powerful aid from the wisdom of experience. It is this which forms the most impressive proof of the necessity of plying the young with all the weight and all the tenderness of earnest admonition, that the now susceptible mind might not turn into a substance harder and more uncomplying than the rock which is broken in pieces by the powerful application of the hammer of the word of God. The metal of the human soul, so to speak, is like some material substances. If the force you lay upon'it do not break it, or dissolve it, it will beat it into hardness. If the moral argument by which it is plied How, do not so soften the mind as to carry and to overpower its purposes, then, on another day, the argument may be put forth in terms as impressive -- but it falls on a harder mind, and, therefore, with a more slender efficiency. If the threat, that ye who persist in sin shall have to dwell with the devouring fire, and to lie down amid everlasting burnings, do not alarm you out of your iniquities from this very moment, then the same threat may be again cast out, and the game appalling circumstances of terror be thrown around it, but it is all discharged on a soul hardened by ...« less