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The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: Volume VII is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Volume Seven, Baxter attempts to understand the process of conversion and the nature of the unconverted. A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, first published in 1658, became Baxter’s most influential and widely-read work. In the words of one historian, “This slim volume was credited with the conversion of thousands and formed one of the core extra-biblical texts of evangelicalism until...

doth principally express the state to which we are called. 2. Also the word Repentance doth principally respect our turning to God from whom we fell: but the word Vocation doth as much or more respect our coming to Christ the Mediator as the way to the Father. There is a twofold repentance; (1.) One is our turning from a state of sin and misery, such as the unconverted are in, and this is it that we mean now, as the same with conversion from the same state. (2.) There is also a particular repentance,
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