A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live by Richard Baxter

The Lord condescends to reason the case with unconverted sinners, and to ask them why they will die. ' Having already illustrated and applied each of these points, let us come to the next doctrine:ĭoctrine 6. Of this fact he leaves man no pretense for doubt, because He has confirmed it to us by his oath: 'As I live, says the Lord.' Furthermore, God is so earnest for the conversion of sinners that He repeats his commands and exhortations with pleadings: 'Turn, turn from your evil ways. He would rather they would turn and live, than go on and die.

IT has been explained, and proved, that God takes pleasure in man’s conversion and salvation, but not in their death or damnation.

Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’' ' Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Sermon 4: Man’s Willfulness in His Own DamnationĮzek. Sermon 3: God’s Condescension in His Offer of Forgiveness Sermon 2: The Earnestness of God's Offer of Forgiveness Sermon 1: The Certainty of Judgment Apart from Repentance Turn, Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel. 'Say to them, 'As I live,' says the Lord God, 'I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. In addition to his A Call to the Unconverted, which had a profound effect on both Spurgeon and Whitefield, he is most noted for his devotional work, The Saints’ Everlasting Rest, and for his passionate call for the spiritual and moral reformation of ministers, The Reformed Pastor, which has remained a classic for over 300 years.Īnd accept of MERCY, while MERCY may be had Īs ever they will find MERCY, in the Day of their EXTREMITY He was especially concerned not with theory but with practical divinity. Baxter's doctrine works and discipline remain to this day.” Baxter was a passionate preacher, who “preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.” A man of extraordinary diligence despite his lifelong ill health, he was a prolific author, even more so than his contemporary John Owen, often writing while imprisoned for the faith.

Of his ministry there, it is said that “He found the place a desert and left it a garden,” and when George Whitefield came to Kidderminster 100 years later, he said to a friend, “I was greatly refreshed to find what a sweet savor of good Mr.

Richard Baxter (1615-91) was one of the greatest of the English Puritan pastors and authors, most associated with the church at Kidderminster which he pastored for twenty years until he and other “nonconformists” were forced from their official ministry by an act of Parliament.

A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live by Richard Baxter