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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...

bare credit of their forefathers, and the common vote of the country they dwell in, most among us may have of the Gospel; but this faith is like the ground of it and will not serve to establish and renew the soul. Men are not soundly persuaded of the infallible truth of all the Word of God till converting grace doth bring them to believe it: they think it may be true, and it may be false for ought they know, they cannot tell: and therefore it is that when we come to those particulars that displease
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