Richard Baxter
1615–1691
Puritan pastor at Kidderminster, the most liberal of his party, remembered for The Reformed Pastor and The Saints' Everlasting Rest.
In his own words
If we beg of them for the sake of God that made them, and preserveth them; for the sake of Christ, that died for them; for the sake of their own poor souls, to pity themselves, and go no farther in the way to hell, but come to Christ while his arms are open, and enter into the state of life while the door stands open, and now take mercy while mercy may be had; they will not be persuaded. If we should die for it, we cannot so much as get them so much as now and then to consider with themselves of the matter, and turn. And yet they can say, "I hope God will be merciful. " Did you never consider what he saith, Isaiah xxvii. 11. "It is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them; and he that formed them will shew them no favour" If another man will not clothe you when you are naked, and feed you when you are hungry, you will say he is unmerciful. If he should cast you into prison, or beat and torment you, you would say he is unmerciful. And yet you will do a thousand times more against yourselves, even cast away both soul and body for ever, and never complain of your own unmercifulness! Yea, and God, that waited upon you all the while with his mercy, must be taken to be unmerciful, if he punish you after all this.
Quoted verbatim from the library, as an answer would quote it.
What we hold of him
The Reformed Pastor
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A Call to the Unconverted
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The Saints' Everlasting Rest
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